Jonathan Nichols wrote:

>  I have POP/IMAP/SMTP on a seperate box from the spamassassin/amavis 
>  box, and I'm trying to come up with a script to take stuff out of the 
>  shared-maildir where users deposit spam that slipped through, tar it 
>  up, and move it to the other box, where yet another script will feed 
>  it to bayes.
> 
>  Most everything works, except for the cleanup! For the life of me, I 
>  can't manage to not screw this step up. heh.
> 
>  jnichols@mail bin $ cat clear_up_spam.sh
>  #!/bin/sh
>  for i in `ls /home/vmail/shared-maildirs/Spamdrop/.Incoming/cur`; do 
>  sudo rm $i; done
>  jnichols@mail bin $
> 
>  Ok, so if I do a ls /home/vmail/shared-maildirs/Spamdrop/.Incoming/cur 
>  then I see all the files in the directory.
> 
>  If I run this script as it is, i get stuff like this:
> 
>  rm: cannot remove 
>  `1118786978.M908087P32756V0000000000000303I0010F8DD_119.mail,S=2390:2,S': 
>  No such file or directory
>  rm: cannot remove 
>  `1118786978.M908337P32756V0000000000000303I0010F8DE_120.mail,S=2381:2,S': 
>  No such file or directory
>  rm: cannot remove 
>  `1118786978.M908585P32756V0000000000000303I0010F8DF_121.mail,S=2381:2,S': 
>  No such file or directory
>  rm: cannot remove 
>  `1118786978.M908831P32756V0000000000000303I0010F8E0_122.mail,S=1910:2,S': 
>  No such file or directory
>  rm: cannot remove 
>  `1118786978.M909071P32756V0000000000000303I0010F8E1_123.mail,S=2456:2,S': 
>  No such file or directory
>  rm: cannot remove 
>  `1118786978.M909318P32756V0000000000000303I0010F8E2_124.mail,S=3858:2,S': 
>  No such file or directory
>  rm: cannot remove 
>  `1118787339.M455809P32750V0000000000000303I0010F695_10.mail,S=2855:2,S': 
>  No such file or directory
> 
>  if I do "cd /home/vmail/shared-maildirs/Spamdrop/.Incoming/cur" and 
>  then "for i in `ls`; do sudo rm $i; done it works just fine. I just 
>  can't manage to delete the files *without* actually sitting there and 
>  manually going into the directory and deleting them. (I know the "for, 
>  do" loop is probably slow but I also screw up xargs every time I try 
>  to use it.)
> 
>  Most everyone on here could probably beat me at shell scripting and 
>  Perl, and this is totally spamassassin stuff related, so I'm asking.. 
>  help me! :)
> 
>  -Jonathan
>  Scripting idiot

Hi,

for i in `ls /home/vmail/shared-maildirs/Spamdrop/.Incoming/cur`; do 
sudo rm /home/vmail/shared-maildirs/Spamdrop/.Incoming/cur/$i; done

Although imapsalearn is easier.

Regards,

Rick