bash script, for deleting a specefic mail

sn0wman · 01-14-2004, 05:55 PM

Im on a big mail server, over 14000 users, sometimes i need to delete just one mail from a specefic account.

Is there any easy way to make a script for this in bash?. so i don't need to empty their whole emaildb.

Exim and sendmail are used for mail.

david_ross · 01-15-2004, 12:54 PM

Probably.

What format do you store messages in?

Under what criteria do you want to delete messages?

sn0wman · 01-15-2004, 03:40 PM

david_ross · 01-15-2004, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by david_ross
Under what criteria do you want to delete messages?

sn0wman · 01-15-2004, 03:53 PM

oh sorry, didn read the whole past message

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Let's say customer X calls, "A mail is blocking all my other mails", the customer is behind 56k6 modem and the mail he's trying to get is about 7mb or more.

I already have tools to lookup wich ordernumber #1 #2 etc. the mail is, but now i wan't a easy way to delete it.

like a script

delmail analoguser2003 #4

all mboxes are under /var/mail/<user>/mail

david_ross · 01-16-2004, 01:32 PM

You don't really need a script - just run:
echo d 5 | mail -f /path/to/mbox

Where you want to delete message 5 from the mbox file "/path/to/mbox".

If it was me though I think I'd just tell the user to delete it without downloading the message.

sn0wman · 01-16-2004, 02:40 PM

Users are stupid

Thanks for the tip, i shall make an php gui for it, so our users can use that.

david_ross · 01-16-2004, 02:57 PM

Why not just get them to telnet to port 110?

If they are using windows (works under wine too) popcorn is a great gui email client program for this type of problem.

sn0wman · 01-16-2004, 06:20 PM

Well, i doubt they know what telnet is.