I've dealt with this may times. the best way is to use the find
command. I use this by manually going into the spam folder and running
a small script. I'll dig up the script in a few minutes but its
basically find "." 'sudo vpopmail -H --spam []' just be sure and run in
it in the directory you want it to delete the messages from.
I'll dig it up but that will handle them 1 at a time. If anyone wants
to work on this I'd be willing to throw in some work on it. The cron
script runs away on our older server since it can't finish in a hour and
after a few hours the machine runs out of memory and the phone starts
ringing.
just my 2 cents but I think the script should:
have a limited memory/ cpu overhead usage built in (don't know how to do
this to a script)
Process mail 1 at a time so when you find an old email account with
20000 spam it won't crash and die.
Have some reporting features built in. for example when it's run
manually it will say "now cleaning spam for
f...@flintstone.com ....learned 27 messsages as spam" moving to
wil...@flinstone.com ....learned 88 messages as spam"...etc
Dan
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 16:35 -0700, Chris Hillman wrote:
> It seems to me the best way to fix the script for large amounts of
> work it to create a function in the shell script like this…
>
>
>
> function larger_mv ()
>
> { while read line1; do
>
> md5sum directory/$line1 >> ~/md5sums
>
> ls -l directory/$line1 >> ~/backup_list
>
> mv directory/$line1 ../directory2
>
> done
>
> }
>
> ls -1 directory/ | larger_mv
>
> Example 3b demonstrates how you easily can get an md5sum and a backup
> listing of each file before moving it.
>
> Unfortunately, since this method also requires that each file be dealt
> with individually, it will involve a delay similar to that of Method
> #2. From experience I have found that Method #2 is a little faster
> than the function given in Example 3a, so Method #3 should be used
> only in cases where the extra functionality is required.
>
> Taken from http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6060
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Kyle Quillen [mailto:kquil...@corp.wifi7.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 4:24 PM
> To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
> Subject: RE: Re: [qmailtoaster] Error Running qtp-clean-spam
>
>
>
>
> Eric,
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks for the quick script
>
>
>
>
>
> it threw this error..
>
>
>
>
>
> cleanspam.sh: line 14: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Is there a command that we can run to just delete these without
> pumping them into sa-learn....
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Q
>
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: news on behalf of Eric Shubert
> Sent: Mon 12/8/2008 4:46 PM
> To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
> Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Error Running qtp-clean-spam
>
>
> That script really should be fixed. In the meantime, this should work:
> (substitute <mydomain> appropriately)
>
> for maildir in `ls -d /home/vpopmail/domains/<mydomain>/*/Maildir`; do
> shopt -s extglob
> for spamfile in `find $maildir/+(cur|new)/* 2>/dev/null`; do
> sudo -u vpopmail -H sa-learn --$learnas $spamfile
> rc=$?
> if [ $? != "0" ]; then
> echo "sa-learn failed, rc=$rc, spamfile=$spamfile"
> exit $rc
> fi
> rm $spamfile
> done
> done
>
> Please report back your result.
>
> Kyle Quillen wrote:
> > Well there are about 3000 accounts on this server so it is going to
> be pretty hard to drill down which folder it is bombing on
> >
> > thanks
> > q
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: Chris Hillman [mailto:chill...@clearwater-research.com]
> > Sent: Mon 12/8/2008 1:49 PM
> > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
> > Subject: RE: [qmailtoaster] Error Running qtp-clean-spam
> >
> >
> >
> > Rather than modify the script, just create a temp imap folder...
> 'temp-spam' or something and move half of the messages there
> temporarily. Run the script. After completion move them back and run
> again. Hopefully it will complete successfully.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Kyle Quillen [mailto:kquil...@corp.wifi7.com]
> > Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 11:41 AM
> > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
> > Subject: RE: [qmailtoaster] Error Running qtp-clean-spam
> >
> >
> >
> > any insight on how to modify the script? I do not know scripting
> all that well and don't want to botch things
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Q
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: Jake Vickers [mailto:j...@v2gnu.com]
> > Sent: Mon 12/8/2008 1:36 PM
> > To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
> > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] Error Running qtp-clean-spam
> >
> > Kyle Quillen wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> >
> > When I try to run the qtp-clean-spam script it comes back with an
> error message that finds argument list is too long. Can anyone point
> in a direction as to how to clear this up.
> >
> >
> > You have too many messages in one folder - you can either break the
> messages up into 2 directories and learn them that way, or modify the
> script to use another find command to pipe the output to the sa-learn
> command.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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