[SOLVED] Remove messages from inbox of all users??

[bjennings]

Ok, so I think I have Spamassassin killing all of the "you have a greeting card" crap emails that quite a few people have been receiving. My question is.......is there a way to re-scan everyone's inbox to delete all messages with a subject of "you've received a greeting card" ?

Thanks for any info

[dkarp]

You can use the zmmailbox CLI to search a user's mailbox for the message in question and also to delete that message.

[bjennings]

So if I use

zmmailbox -a admin -p <password> -m me@mydomain dm <msg ID>

can I put in multiple message ID's?

[dkarp]

Originally Posted by bjennings

So if I use

zmmailbox -a admin -p <password> -m me@mydomain dm <msg ID>

can I put in multiple message ID's?

Yes, you can. But please note that these are the numeric internal IDs for the messages in the Zimbra store, not the Message-ID headers from the message bodies.

To search for a message with the Message-ID header <foo@bar>, I believe that you use the search string msgid:foo@bar.

[bjennings]

I am able to remove them one at a time, but cannot figure out the separator for multiple emails.

I tried things like

zmmailbox -a admin -p <password> -m me@mydomain dm 40503, 40504

zmmailbox -a admin -p <password> -m me@mydomain dm 40503: 40504

and a few others, but I can't find any documentation on what I should be using.

Thanks for any insite.

And yes, you are right. On my 4.5.6 system, it is <search msgid: (Message_id from email) to get the zimbra id number.

So, for anyone else wondering, Here's what I did:

Use zmmailbox

mbox>adminauthenticate <admin> <password>

mbox> selectMailbox <mailbox_user name>

To search for message ID

mbox> search msgid:465B275C.3090106@isode.com

[dkarp]

Originally Posted by bjennings

I am able to remove them one at a time, but cannot figure out the separator for multiple emails.

I tried things like

zmmailbox -a admin -p <password> -m me@mydomain dm 40503, 40504

zmmailbox -a admin -p <password> -m me@mydomain dm 40503: 40504

and a few others, but I can't find any documentation on what I should be using.

Try using spaces as your delimiter. In other words,

zmmailbox -a admin -p <password> -m me@mydomain dm 40503 40504 40505 40506

[malayo]

and how about the command to remove all messages in all users?

[phoenix]

Do not add your post to a thread that is as old as this one, start a new thread in future.

Originally Posted by malayo

and how about the command to remove all messages in all users?

Why would you actually want to do that? Have you looked at the wiki article and forum threads (or even the cli help) that tell you how to empty an Inbox?

[malayo]

found solution with a script on zimbra wiki about bulk provisioning