[Gllug] Re-scanning old emails

[Martin A. Brooks]

Chris Bell wrote:
> Hello,
>    I would like to re-scan a very large single file on a Debian mailserver
> running exim4 containing a dump of emails received addressed to unknown user
> names. There are relatively few "user names" scraped from news posts, and I
> have set them up as aliases to a junk user, but I would like to check for
> emails rejected because of mis-typing. I am not in any hurry, and am not
> bothered if it takes weeks, as long as it does not delay new mail. If needed
> I could even set up another box as a temporary "mail server" to do the
> processing. Possible solutions gratefully received.


Depending on exactly what you mean by "mailserver", "dump of emails", 
"user names", "mistyping" and "processing", then Perl might be of 
assistance.

WIITYWTD,E?


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