Subject: Re: quickie UNIX command
From: Bryn Hughes (linux@mail.cbodycentral.net)
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 12:01:36 MDT
You can have cron do this for you say... once a month? Once a week?
however often you like.
Bryn
>At 1:28 PM -0400 on 5/17/01, Sam Moore wrote:
>
>>PS you do mean files whose names contain the string, don't you?
>
>Hollis' suggestion did the trick. Here's the problem... (this may
>lead to some other more elegant solutions perhaps)
>
>I've recently been put in charge of our very own qmail installation
>for our domain and several virtual hosts. (thanks Steve!) My
>postmaster mailbox has been filling up with bounced bounce messages
>from spammers.
>
>1. Spammer sends mail to nonexistent accounts at our domain
>2. qmail bounces spam to forged return address
>3. the bounce itself bounces, and qmail sends me a failure message
>
>What I wanted to do was periodically go through all the messages in
>postmaster's Maildir and remove any files containing the string "I
>tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce
>bounced" while leaving other mail alone.
>
>There may be more direct ways to deal with this, and although it's
>probably a better topic for the qmail list I'd be interested in
>suggestions. In any case, I've learned a couple new shell command
>skills. :-)
>
>Gawain
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