Re: how to mass delete after a hacked mail?

voytek@sbt.net.au wrote:

I had a hacked user account resulting in several thousand bounces back to that email inbox, account now corrected, but, how can I mass delete bounces with say subject like:

"Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" (by from ? ""Mail Delivery System" MAILER-DAEMON@emu.sbt.net.au")

How about this -

find <maildir>/cur -type f -ctime -7 | xargs grep -l '^Subject:.*Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender' | xargs rm

(the -7 will limit the search to files created in the last week).

Obviously run some tests first _without_ "xargs rm".

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