I think all I did was change to the directory where I backed up all
my Users folders and:
grep -iRl 'Hurricane Relief Book Drive' ./ > /somedirectory/output.txt
If I recall, I then used grep on that output.txt to clean it up a bit:
grep './' /somedirectory/output.txt > /somedirectory/cleanoutput.txt
And there you have it, a fairly clean list of user folders containing
the message.
YMMV
Curtis
On Oct 10, 2005, at 6:25 AM, Dan Barker wrote:
What was the grep target? We would like to check our mailboxes too.
Dan
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Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 7:18 PM
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Subject: [IMail Forum] Malformed e-mail jamming Web temp file
I was just in the Ipswitch forum and just found someone else who's
had the
same
problem I've had for a few days. I don't think it's been discussed
here
yet,
though...
Apparently Wilbooks.com recently sent out a mass e-mail targeted at
school
districts. This e-mail apparently does not play nice with IMail's Web
Messaging.
The issue can cause denial of service and disk space issues on
IMail Server
from
what I've seen.
When a user opens the message in Web Messaging, it seemingly
refuses to open
and the user only gets a perpetually-loading blank webmail screen. Of
course any
time a web page is generated for Web Messaging, a temporary file is
generated in /
IMail/spool/web/. Normally that file is deleted when the page is
no longer
needed. However, in this case, no matter what the user does (Back,
Close
Browser,
whatever), that temp file keeps building, even after they've logged
out. If
you open
the file in a text editor, you see that it is a chunk of the
Wilbooks.com
e-mail
repeating itself over and over.
The only way to stop it is to restart Web Messaging. I delete the
temp file
before
starting the service again, just for performance sake.
I had one temp file grow to 96 Gig before I caught it.
From what I read in the forum, Wilbooks is aware of the problem
now. The
intention of their message was not malicious as far as I can tell and
Wilbooks
communicates with school district employees quite often regarding
their
products.
Anyway, those of us affected have large numbers of users with that
particular e-
mail in their Inbox, just sitting there waiting to be read using
Webmail so
it can
start its endless loop. Monday morning should be fun!
Through use of a simple grep, I have a list of the users who have the
message in
their mailbox, but the only way I know of to get rid of it is to
use IMail
Client and
do it one account at a time. Anyone have an easier way?
Curtis
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