Removing emails from server.

Shopro · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:59 am Post subject: Removing emails from server.

I'm running a small qmail + courier-imap + vpopmail server at home. It has about 150 users all having about 1GB mailbox size. Now I'm having a problem with one of the accounts. My friend had his firewall logs sent to his mailbox every 10sec interval. Now he has about 10.000+ emails with the subject: test in them, and i'm wondering if there is a command like "grep something" to remove only those emails from his mailbox dir on my server.
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Cocker68 · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject:

The e-mails of Your friend John stay in
/home/john/.maildir/, right?

Then I would suggest something like

Shopro · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject:

Actually i think they are somewhere in /var, as it is an virtual email server serving 4 different mail hosts. Can't say for sure as i'm not at home so i can't access the server at the moment. But i can easily provide extra information about it later on, few hours. I remember that they are in a folder that has files named something like this: maildomainname.com.314324890723470283743423
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