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Move all mails with a certain subject into a backup dir.

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Move all mails with a certain subject (in this case starting with the word "Undelivered" into a backup dir.
It is by no means a mail filter, I needed it to clean out the maildirectory after a HDD crash wich caused over 1000000 (one million) local bouces and thus Undelivered mails and stuff.

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  1. for file in `grep -lr 'Subject: Undelivered' /path/to/Maildir/cur`; 
  2.     do 
  3.     mv $file /path/to/backup/; 
  4. done

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