Suresh Ramasubramanian said:
> +++ Arvind [linux-india] <14/06/02 11:21 +0530>:
>> i have 11500 emails in my pop3 server.
>> and i want to delete 11100 emails from the serer.
>> how can i issuse the dele command from the
>> `telnet mymailserver pop3` prompt
> If you have a shell on that server, the best way is to use mutt.  T to
> tag mails according to a pattern, then ;d to delete all tagged mail.

Or...

Write a perl script using one of the POP-reading modules from CPAN and ask
the perl script to issue the delete commands.

> Where'd you get 11k mails into that mailbox?

I'm guessing it is some sort of runaway script or mail-server error.

Thaths



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