Script to delete emails based on subject

Hi,

I would like your input and advice on dealing with some email issues.

We have some 40,000 emails in one of our mailboxes ([email protected]) with a single subject ("Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender")

I would like to delete all of these messages with this subject. I am not able to do this using regular email clients such as outlook or thunderbird (extremely time consuming.)

Is there a way I could do this via command line or a script?

I would appreciate any input and help in this regard.

Thanks,

Fuji

 

Are you using Maildir or mbox format?

 

Hi - I am using Maildir format

 

each message has a individual file, and you can grep for the subject line, cut the first field delimited by a colon and then delete that list of files.

 

Thanks id10t - I had to use xargs since the list of files were too large for grep to handle - but overall the approach seems to work - will test it out a couple of times and then use it on the production machine

 

Thanks for starting that topic.

 

I have already using this script looking for new

 

I may not totally understand but I know I have a problem that is like yours although not 40,000 of them but a lot over 1,000 I create a rule in Outlook and also mark it as read and send it to the trash.
I would like to see your script if and when you get this done and tested. I would like to see if it can help in our situation.
Thanks for the post / question.

 

If you have access to mail server, you can grep/find through mailbox for your text and delete matched files. This approach will work only if your mail server store each message in individual file.

 

really it is a nice topic thanks for staring you

 

Thanks for starting that topic.

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GUL