Commands to delete all messages containing string... obviously these commands are EXTREMELY dangerous, in both cases the list is generated to a file, which you can then examine and check that it only contains the 'problem' messages and nothing else :-)

DOUBLE CHECK the file before running the command to actually delete the files :-)

ChrisP.

# Windows
cd \surgemail\mbox
findstr  /s /m  "THINGTOFIND" u* >delete.txt
(examine delete.txt)
for /f %i in (delete.txt) do del %i

# Linux
find /var/surgemail/DOMAINPATH -name "u*" -print | xargs grep -l "THINGTOFIND" | awk '{print "rm \x22"$1"\x22" }' > doit.sh
more doit.sh # // check the files are correct, examine them!!!
ONLY ONCE YOU ARE CERTAIN!!!!  source doit.sh

ChrisP.

HI all,

 

We had a phishing message delivered to a bunch of mailboxes that made it past our spam filters.  Is there a tellmail command that will let me scan all mailboxes and delete a message from a sender?

 

Thanks

 

Jeff.