zbigniew szalbot wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Graeme Fowler pisze:
>
>> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:34 +0100, zbigniew szalbot wrote:
>>
>>> I have a lot of mailman bounces destined for an admin address (my
>>> error). I would like to delete them from queue (no need to send them).
>>> How do I do that? I can delete a single message using -Mrm option but
>>> can anyone share how to do that for all messages destined for one
>>> recipient? We're talking about 4K emails in this instance.
>>>
>> Assuming a sender of the form:
>>
>> mailman-admin@???
>>
>> you'd do:
>>
>> exipick -f "mailman-admin@???" -i |\
>> xargs -i exim -Mrm {}
>>
>> exipick really is your friend, especially in cases like this :)
>>
>>
> Thank you very much for your advice Graeme but xargs complains about
> illegal option -i
> I am reading man xargs and even if I substitute -i with -o or the like,
> exim then says:
> exim: malformed message id {} after -Mrm option
>
> Thanks!
>
> Zbigniew Szalbot
>
I'm not sure the aim of the -i, but what you need to do there is send
the message IDs one at a time to exim, so the "-L1" flag usually does
the trick. You may need to check your xargs man page to confirm thats
the right syntax for the version on your OS:
exipick -f "mailman-admin@???" -i |\
xargs -L1 exim -Mrm {}
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