Delete data under .sqmaildata directory

[Morea]

8.0K ./cpmove.psql.1222948354
2.7M ./public_html
16M ./mail
8.0K ./public_ftp
4.0K ./.htpasswds
52K ./etc
5.0M ./.sqmaildata
960K ./tmp
200K ./.cpanel
8.0K ./.cpaddons
8.0K ./cpmove.psql
25M .

Guys ! I have no any idea to delete the components within the particular, can you tell me how to delete entire data which are stored within the .sqmaildata but the directory should not be deleted.. Do you all have any idea regading this ...???

[Praetor]

Have you issues any commands from the Linux that are capable to do it, you can use the directory operated commands from the Linux and they would easily delete the data inside the directory and it is very simple to use :

rm -rf .sqmaildata

This one command would select all the files from the .sqlmaildata and then remove all that .

[Katty]

Very well suggested and I also think , it would be the good solution to delete the data from that located directory but you need to locate the path of the file and directory. If you just need to delete the data from that directory (.sqmaildata) but not the directory itself, then just type :

rm -rf .sqmaildata/*

One thing more, I will suggest you that just be careful with the rm command, it can be very dangerous to use. So use this command with the proper option otherwise, you lost some needed components form the directory ...can I know the reson why , you wanted to delete the data inside this directory . It stores the spamassassin information and associated rules and consumes only 16 MB of space..

[Morea]

Thanks to you all for these kind replies. Katty, I wanted to delete all this because that account is consuming disk space 57 out of 50 allocated and then after I investigate about the disk used and come to be aware that .sqmaildata and .spamassasin directories are taking so much space of the disk in MB. That is why, I decided to remove for the same.

28M     ./mail
11M     ./.sqmaildata
1.9M    ./tmp
16M     ./.spamassassin

I am not getting your points , what is .sqmaildata and why it is taking 11 MB disk space ?

[Dr. V]

Actually, the .sqmaildata directory may have mails which are marked as spam and these maybe lqarge in size. You can provide the below suggested command to find them and remove them.

du -sch  /home/username/.sqmaildata/*

.spamassassin has the files associated with the domain specific spamassassin settings. You can check the size of each one files within this folder as follows.

du -sch /home/username/.spamassassin/*