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 I usually create a new address for any subscription or purchase, then forward that account to a central, unpublished account.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 I usually create a new address for any subscription or purchase, then forward that account to a central, unpublished account.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.]
How can telnet not be allowed? I use it for troubleshooting mail servers all the time. You don't need to have the default telnet port 23 open on the target, you just telnet to port 110 (POP3) to initiate the session and then pretend to be an Email client by tossing commands back and forth with the server. The server will respond with coded prompts telling you exactly what it wants & when ... basically walking you through the process.