[MM3-users] Re: where do I find the text of a bounce email ?

On 3/16/21 11:34 AM, Per Jessen wrote:

I'm trying with this:

find /var/spool/mailman/bad -type f -name \*pck |
while read m do (mailman qfile $m | grep -q ad.dr@ess) && echo $m done

Is there a better way?

Yes, as you've noticed there is a significant startup cost every time you invoke the mailman command. to invoke it only once first see

mailman shell --details

(that refers to mailman withlist which is just another way to spell mailman shell).

You will want to create a script similar to the following:

import pickle from os import listdir

def findaddr(address): for fname in listdir('/var/spool/mailman/bad'): if not fname.endswith('.pck'): continue with open(fname, 'rb') as fp: msg = pickle.load(fp) if address in msg.as_string(): print(fname)

That's your script. Save it as findaddr.py where mailman shell can import it and run

mailman shell -r findaddr.py -- ad.dr@ess

This should print the names of any pickles that contain 'ad.dr@ess'

Note however that this may not be necessary. If all you want is the names of the .pck files that mention 'ad.dr@ess',

grep ad.dr@ess /var/spool/mailman/bad/*.pck

should actually work reporting things like

Binary file /var/spool/mailman/bad/*.pck matches

with the actual file name, not *.

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