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Re: Deleting a single e-mail from a mailbox - mbox format

2001-08-09 05:04:21
* Barrett W Clark <mgronduty(_at_)texoma(_dot_)net> [20010809 08:42]: writing 
on the subject 'Re: Deleting a single e-mail from a mailbox - mbox format'
Odhiambo,

I think you could use pine. (please correct me if I am wrong.)

i.e...pine -f /var/mail/some_mailbox

You should be able to view the mailbox and delete the problem e-mail.

Very correct and I can also use elm -f some_mailbox but that is not what I
wanted to do.
Say I have 2k mailboxes and someone has sent a mass mail to all those
mailboxes and I want to delete that mail before the others retrieve it.
I would want to match some condition, either From: or Subject: and pass
all these mailboxes to procmail somehow, you see the point why I asked
this on the procmail list and not pine-users ;-)



At 05:08 PM 8/8/2001 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
Is there a recipe that I can use to delete an e-mail that has already been
delivered to /var/mail/some_mailbox??

TIA

-Wash

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