On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Philip Tejera wrote:
>
> Unfortunately my institution just got spammed with objectionable material.
> Naturally, the administration wants me to delete as much of it as remains in
> the Maildirs. When I was just running qmail, this was easily done with a
> find . | xargs grep xxx > somefile, and then deleting the files listed in
> somefile.
First, never run the output of find through xargs.
That is a terribly classic mistake.
use find . <args> -print0 | xargs -0 blah blah
if you *must* pipe output of find through xargs.
find . <args> -exec grep <grep args> {} \;
is probably better yet.
On to your question.
Don't worry much about it. courier-imap, at least, rebuilds the uiddb
when it needs to. Consider shutting down the services of the user's
whose mail your are going to futz with, but I don't have any more
advise for you.
--
Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to
pound in the correct screw.
Jon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
C and Python Code Gardener
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