[Nottingham] saved by the shell ?

[Andrew Etches]

On 10:09 Wed 21 May     , Alex Walker wrote:
> 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
In my experience, 35,000 messages would take ages to load in mutt.

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