I have a question, why do you thing 160MB mail file is huge.
I've seen 2GB mail files.
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> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On
> Behalf Of Joe
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:47 AM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Out of control mailbox
>
> I don't have a choice, it's a remotely hosted server, not mine.
>
> This was the final solution I went with...
>
> # get the total line count, as a number
> lines=`wc -l MBOX_FILE | cut -d\ -f2`
> # calculate the number of lines to the end of the file let
> newlines=${lines}-DESIRED_START_LINE
> # let me know what the end result will be echo -e "old file:
> ${lines} lines\nnew file: ${newlines} lines"
> # create the new file
> tail -n $newlines MBOX_FILE > NEW_MBOX_FILE # finally,
> replace the old mboxfile mv MBOX_FILE MBOX_FILE.old && mv
> NEW_MBOX_FILE MBOX_FILE
>
> I ran that in one string with semicolons. I posted it here
> commented for easy reading. Thanks for the help all!
>
> -Joe
>
>
> kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
> > There is a perl script that will turn a mbox file to Maildir.
> > Then you can manipulate the messages individually and cat them back
> > together after you are done.
> > I think...
> >
> > Man, why are you still "mbox(ing)" ? :)
> > ET
> >
> >
> > Joe writes:
> >
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> I have a user with a huge mailbox that is borking things
> up here. I
> >> was going to drop all mail older than the 19th to reduce the
> >> filesize. I had planned to do this by opening it in vim,
> finding the
> >> first line with "Jul 18" and remove from the line before
> it to line
> >> 0. Problem is, it's a 160+ MB file and vim doesn't handle that too
> >> well. I know which line number I want to delete to though.
> So here's the question....
> >>
> >> How can I remove from line 0 to line 1000000 (as an
> example) from the
> >> file? Or, how can I export from line 1000001 to the end in
> a new file
> >> (which I could then replace the current mailbox file
> with)? I have no
> >> idea how to accomplish either.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance for any help!
> >>
> >> -Joe
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