how to mass delete after a hacked mail?

[Per Jessen]

voytek at 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 at 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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