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General Software Discussion / In need of a server-side email tool ...
« on: May 19, 2009, 07:07 AM »
Folk,
I seek a tool that will let me clear all the email account contents in a given domain w/o deleting the accounts.
I have a great number of email addresses. I usually create a new address for any subscription or purchase, then forward that account to a central, unpublished account. This has served me well in regard to identifying/quelling questionable sources. However, those addresses do tend to accumulate mail. While no more than 300-350 are currently active, there are probabably 500+ accounts all told.
The problem is that I need to delete most of the email on the domain server, which is stored as 20 here, 30 there, 100 in another account.
I had, several system crashes ago, an app that did that very thing for me ... I simply pointed it to the domain, and it deleted all current email w/o changing the account(s). Unfortunately, I've lost that due to faulty backups. I don't even recall the name of it, and searches via Google & other engines have not produced anything similar.
Without some such tool, I could spend a week doing nothing but deleting email - not an endearing task by any stretch of the imagination, and a task that I really do not have time to perform.
Do any of you know of any such tool?
[P.S. Somebody is bound to tell me I'm a damned fool for doing this. May be, but the procedure has served me well in identifying subscriptions that leak, loan, or lease addresses, and I simply cease to have anything to do with those sources. My email spam has been reduced to about 20% of what it was prior to implementing this process. It's a kludge, and I don't advocate it for most folk, but it works well in my particular case.]
I seek a tool that will let me clear all the email account contents in a given domain w/o deleting the accounts.
I have a great number of email addresses. I usually create a new address for any subscription or purchase, then forward that account to a central, unpublished account. This has served me well in regard to identifying/quelling questionable sources. However, those addresses do tend to accumulate mail. While no more than 300-350 are currently active, there are probabably 500+ accounts all told.
The problem is that I need to delete most of the email on the domain server, which is stored as 20 here, 30 there, 100 in another account.
I had, several system crashes ago, an app that did that very thing for me ... I simply pointed it to the domain, and it deleted all current email w/o changing the account(s). Unfortunately, I've lost that due to faulty backups. I don't even recall the name of it, and searches via Google & other engines have not produced anything similar.
Without some such tool, I could spend a week doing nothing but deleting email - not an endearing task by any stretch of the imagination, and a task that I really do not have time to perform.
Do any of you know of any such tool?
[P.S. Somebody is bound to tell me I'm a damned fool for doing this. May be, but the procedure has served me well in identifying subscriptions that leak, loan, or lease addresses, and I simply cease to have anything to do with those sources. My email spam has been reduced to about 20% of what it was prior to implementing this process. It's a kludge, and I don't advocate it for most folk, but it works well in my particular case.]