: How to bulk delete email accounts from cPanel / my hosting account? I'd like to delete a few hundred email accounts from my domain (it's not all of them). I've looked and looked. cPanel and

@Debbie626

Finally stumbled on the delpop command and cPanel's command-line interface.

So, assuming:


You have SSH access to your account
Your host has installed cPanel in the usual way


Then you can delete a single email account with this command, using an SSH client like PuTTY:

/usr/local/cpanel/cpanel-email delpop account_003 0 mydomain.com






To delete many accounts, all on domain mydomain.com, do this:


Create a text file, delemails.txt, with each account name on its own line:

account_003
account_004
account_012
account_027
etc...

FTP that file onto your server into a convenient location.
SSH onto your server and cd to the location where you placed delemails.txt
Run this command from the SSH shell:

for i in `cat delemails.txt`; do /usr/local/cpanel/cpanel-email delpop "$i" 0 mydomain.com ; done


It takes a couple of minutes to loop through 197 accounts and you'll see status messages printing for each account.
Done!

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