bash script, for deleting a specefic mail
 

Im on a big mail server, over 14000 users, sometimes i need to delete just one mail from a specefic account.

Is there any easy way to make a script for this in bash?. so i don't need to empty their whole emaildb.

Exim and sendmail are used for mail.

Probably.

What format do you store messages in?

Under what criteria do you want to delete messages?

mbox

oh sorry, didn read the whole past message ;))

Let's say customer X calls, "A mail is blocking all my other mails", the customer is behind 56k6 modem and the mail he's trying to get is about 7mb or more.

I already have tools to lookup wich ordernumber #1 #2 etc. the mail is, but now i wan't a easy way to delete it.

like a script

delmail analoguser2003 #4

all mboxes are under /var/mail/<user>/mail

You don't really need a script - just run:
echo d 5 | mail -f /path/to/mbox

Where you want to delete message 5 from the mbox file "/path/to/mbox".

If it was me though I think I'd just tell the user to delete it without downloading the message.

Users are stupid :)

Thanks for the tip, i shall make an php gui for it, so our users can use that.

Why not just get them to telnet to port 110?

If they are using windows (works under wine too) popcorn is a great gui email client program for this type of problem.

Well, i doubt they know what telnet is.