[Nottingham] saved by the shell ?

[Alex Walker]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 06:21:46PM +0000, Martin Kirk wrote:
> i have a mailbox (maildir format) that, thanks to some over-zealous status 
> reporting by a firewall, has received approx. 35,000 messages in the the last 
> few days.

> i have shell access to the server so was hoping i could use some command-line 
> trickery to remove all messages with a given subject line.

I know you've found a solution already, but I use mutt and I'd just have
pressed T and typed "My Subject Line" and then pressed d to delete
them... would work with Maildir or mbox I assume...

Alex

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