<![CDATA[iRedMail — deleting certain e-mail]]> 2009-06-24T01:12:28Z PunBB http://www.iredmail.org/forum/topic90-deleting-certain-email.html <![CDATA[Re: deleting certain e-mail]]> Try this:

$ grep -lr 'Mail delivery failed: returning' /home/vmail/birovits.md/office/cur/ | xargs rm -f {}

Warning: Use 'head/cat/tail' or whatever command you like to confirm that is the mail you want to delete, it's not recoverable.

]]> http://www.iredmail.org/forum/user2.html 2009-06-24T01:12:28Z http://www.iredmail.org/forum/post434.html#p434 <![CDATA[deleting certain e-mail]]> Hello. I have a problem I have a mailbox that received about 60000 messages and a big part of them is bounce messages is there a way to delete all of them without deleting other messages....I started with finding all the files that contain a certain string

[root@mail]# grep -lr 'Mail delivery failed: returning' /home/vmail/birovits.md/office/cur/

but i don't know how to delete the list of files that is given. can anyone help?

]]> http://www.iredmail.org/forum/user26.html 2009-06-23T22:47:18Z http://www.iredmail.org/forum/post432.html#p432