Running out of space Error...

[yusha]

Well, my hosting space are running out but I am not uploading anything.
So I looked on Disk Space Usage in Cpanel and here is the screenshot of it:

But I am not using any webmail because I am using Google Apps

So I looked into Email Accounts in Cpanel and here it is:

Here I see that there is biobeo is the default email account but I don't need that so any administrator please help me to clean up these unused space in mail.

 

[un4saken]

Just access webmail and check those emails to understand where they come from. After that, simply delete all of them.

 

[yusha]

Thanks for the advice. Damn I have got 80K Emails from my own created script in cron jobs.. and I forgot to disable that..

 

[Genesis]

Thanks for the advice. Damn I have got 80K Emails from my own created script in cron jobs.. and I forgot to disable that..

You sound like an expert but thought I would also refer you to DJB (Chris)'s knowledge base article on tips and tricks to keep your Webmail box as empty as possible:

Spoiler

To set up your email security precautions. Spam Assassin is set off by default. You need to check your cPanel in order to turn Spam Assassin and other security features for e-mail ON:

1. Click on the Mail icon in your CPanel. You will be taken to the Mail Manager Main Menu screen.
2. Click on "Default Address"; if it does not say ":blackhole:" in the box, click on the "Set Default Address" link at bottom of page. Then type exactly (without the quotation marks) ":blackhole:" in the empty box; click "Change". Do NOT set this to ":fail:" because that will put more load on server resources, by having to return to sender... which is not even a real address most of the time.

3. Click on Spam Assassin.

4. Click on Enable Spam Assassin.

5. Once cPanel indicates the change was processed, click on Go_Back link to go back to Spam Assassin menu screen.

6. Click on Configure Spam Assassin. You will be taken to the Spam Assassin Configuration screen.

7. Change rewrite_subject to 1

8. Click on Save.

9. Once cPanel indicates the change was processed, click on Go_Back link to go back to Spam Assassin Menu screen.

10. Click on Go_Back again. You should now be back at the Mail Manager Main Menu screen.

11. Click on E-mail Filtering.

12. Click on Add_Filter. You will be taken to the Add Filter screen.

13. Type Yes in the empty box. Select "Spam Assassin Spam Header" and "begins with" .

14. Click on Activate.

15. Once cPanel indicates the filter was added, click on the Go_Back link to go back to the Filter Maintenance screen.

16. Log out of cPanel.

 

[yusha]

From PM to Genesis

Hello Sir, I was using a script to check my servers up time which uses Cron Jobs to send email if the servers went offline. But now I have deleted the script from my hosting because It is using more than 600MB of my 1GB hosting space. I've got 61312 emails in my default email account and deleting those emails are really a pain. Could you please help me to delete those emails and free up my space?

 

[Genesis]

I've emptied the mailbox as requested Biobeo.

 

[yusha]

Thank you sir, for the clean up. I wish I could have access through putty on my shared hosting directory. LOL. But that will make a big security hole.

 

[Genesis]

Merged two threads on same topic.