Help required regardind files deletion!

[shakeel_jee7]

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I need help regarding deleting files. I have a mail Server with CentOS+exim+dovecot and Horde Webmail. Also my server has Mailbox format. I means /home/username/Maildir/new, cur, etc folders.

Today my one of my client has spamming attack from an email account which sent almost 86000+ emails in its Inox. I have blocked this user for further spamming. Now I need help to remove these files at once from the Inbox "cur" folder. Can anyone help me regarding this specifically. I have searched through internet, but could not get my required results.


Regards,

[shakeel_jee7]

No one did reply!

I had found the solution at that time by doing some tricks manually with find.


find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs grep -l "email address" | xargs rm -rf


Thanks for all.

[azfar]

I made one for me years back.

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#!/bin/bash

path=/home/azfar/scripts/mail


if [ $# -ne 2 ]
then
echo "Usage: $0 keyword keyword."
echo "Both keywords should be same."
exit
fi

if [ $1 == $2 ]
then
grep -lr "$1" $path/* > deletedfiles
no=`wc -l deletedfiles | awk '{print $1}'`
xargs rm -rf < deletedfiles
echo "$no files deleted. See the deletedfiles for details."
else
echo "Supplied keyword does not matched."
fi

change your spool path and supply a unique word to identify spam like Ip address, sender, anything unique from body or subject etc.