How to setup CRON to delete emails from server? / Support Portal

Note: Automatic Delete is disabled from TMail 6 just as a performance booster. CRON setup is mandatory if you want to delete old emails.

Its quite possible that your site becomes famous with TMail running at the backend, so here is a quick way on how you can delete tons of emails, you may be receiving daily.

Below is the CRON command you can set for

TMail 5

wget -O /dev/null -o /dev/null https://[YOUR_SITE_URL]/cron/deletemails?key=[CRON_PASSWORD]

TMail 6 - Will follow your Delete Settings in Admin Panel

wget -O /dev/null -o /dev/null https://[YOUR_SITE_URL]/api/cron/[CRON_PASSWORD]

You can set the time based on your need. Below is the description of various possible options

# * * * * *  command to execute 
# │ │ │ │ │ 
# │ │ │ │ │ 
# │ │ │ │ └───── day of week (0 - 6) (0 to 6 are Sunday to Saturday, or use names; 7 is Sunday, the same as 0) 
# │ │ │ └────────── month (1 - 12) 
# │ │ └─────────────── day of month (1 - 31) 
# │ └──────────────────── hour (0 - 23) 
# └───────────────────────── min (0 - 59)

Examples,

If you want to set the emails to be deleted every day (only for TMail 5)

0 0 * * * wget -O /dev/null -o /dev/null https://[YOUR_SITE_URL]/cron/deletemails?key=[CRON_PASSWORD]

For TMail 6, below is the sample. The setting of old emails being deleted is in Admin Panel.

* * * * * wget -O /dev/null -o /dev/null https://[YOUR_SITE_URL]/api/cron/[CRON_PASSWORD]

PS - You can find/set your CRON Password in the Admin Panel of your TMail