Am 2016-09-17 um 01:03 schrieb voytek@sbt.net.au:

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")

or what other ways to clean the mess ?

thanks,

V

Please excuse if you find my take objectionable: If the user invited the mischief, he or she ought to clean that up themselves ;)

Otherwise, there is doveadm search and doveadm expunge …

-- peter

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".

-- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland.