Paul Graydon wrote:
> 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 {}
>
>
Sorry.. just engaged my brain :D the "-i" was to make it pass the
variables in where the {} are.. and that makes what I just e-mailed not
work right either! Should have read:
exipick -f "mailman-admin@???" -i |\
xargs -L1 exim -Mrm
Hope that helps
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