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Sendmail: Delete Matching Mail

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Delete emails matching a phrase in the headers.

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  1. #!/bin/sh
  2.  
  3. cd /var/spool/mqueue
  4. for i in `grep -sl "<some common phrase in the headers>" qf*`
  5. do
  6. 	j=`ls -1 "$i" | sed 's/qf\(.*\)$/df\1/'`
  7. 	echo "Deleting $i ($j)"
  8. 	rm $i $j
  9. done

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