[SOLVED] Out of control mailbox

[Bob Elzer]

I have a question, why do you thing 160MB mail file is huge.

I've seen 2GB mail files.
 

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> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at 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 at 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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