{"id":30588,"date":"2026-07-30T12:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firestorm.ch\/?p=30588"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:21:35","slug":"mailbox-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firestorm.ch\/en\/news\/mailbox-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailbox Cleanup: trash and spam now empty themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Full mailboxes are one of the most common causes of storage problems in web hosting. The culprit is often not the inbox itself but folders nobody keeps an eye on: over the months, thousands of messages pile up in the trash and spam folders.<\/p>\n<p>That is why all FireStorm Linux hosting plans now include the new <strong>Mailbox Cleanup<\/strong> tool at no extra cost. With just a few clicks in the Plesk panel, you tell the server to empty selected folders automatically: messages older than the number of days you choose are permanently deleted once per night.<\/p>\n<h3>What Mailbox Cleanup can do<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Empty the trash automatically:<\/strong> for example, remove everything that was deleted more than 30 days ago<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keep the spam folder small:<\/strong> old spam messages disappear by themselves<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clean up custom folders:<\/strong> even a newsletter or archive folder can be tidied automatically<\/li>\n<li><strong>Configurable per mailbox:<\/strong> each rule applies exactly to the mailbox and folder you select<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The cleanup runs on the server. It therefore makes no difference whether you read your e-mail with Outlook, Apple Mail, webmail or on your smartphone. 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