I am looking to remove approximately 150 email alias addresses. Doing this through the Control Panel will be very time consuming and I am wondering if there is a better way to do it?
They are all under a specific subdomain e.g. alias@sd1.example.com. I want to delete every single alias under sd1.example.com, so that I can eventually remove the domain entirely from MIAB.
I am thinking this might be achievable through the mail.py script but I have no idea where to start!
You are probably looking at something like connecting to the database file via sqlite directly.
cd /home/user-data/mail sudo sqlite3 users.sqlite
This puts you into the sqlite prompt. Now try and run this command.
select * from aliases where source like '%sd1.example.com';
If this shows all the records you’d like to delete, you could then alter the SQL command and do:
delete from aliases where source like '%sd1.example.com';
Just be aware that if you execute the above command, it will really delete them all. I’d suggest making a simple backup of your database first so that if you make a mistake you can easily restore.
cd /home/user-data/mail cp users.sqlite backup-users.sqlite
Maybe that will work for you?
To exit the sqlite prompt once you are done, simply type:
