12-08-2012
Just a note (and my personal opinion) while this is a good exercise, YOU SHOULD NOT ALIAS RM. The last thing you want to do is forget how powerful it is, and more importantly how permanent it is. Seems like no big deal, but then that one day you carelessly delete something...
One thing you could do though if you still want to proceed is make it so that before it rm's whatever, it performs an ls, prints the output and asks you to confirm that you want to delete.
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Qmhandle(1) General Commands Manual Qmhandle(1)
NAME
qmhandle - tool to manage the qmail message queue
SYNOPSIS
qmhandle [--help] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
qmHandle is a tool which can be used to manage the qmail message queue. It's written in Perl (so fully customizable) and has more features
than qmail-qread and qmail-qstat.
OPTIONS
-a try to send queued messages now (qmail must be running)
-l list message queues
-L list local message queue
-R list remote message queue
-s show some statistics
-mN display message number N
-dN delete message number N
-fsender
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-Stext delete all messages that have/contain text as Subject
-h're' delete all messages with headers matching regular expression re (case insensitive)
-b're' delete all messages with body matching regular expression re (case insensitive)
-H're' delete all messages with headers matching regular expression re (case sensitive)
-B're' delete all messages with body matching regular expression re (case sensitive)
-t're' flag messages with recipients in regular expression 're' for earlier retry (note: this lengthens the time message can stay in queue)
-D delete all messages in the queue (local and remote)
-V print program version
-c display colored output
-N list message numbers only
AUTHORS
Marcela Tiznado <mlt@debian.org>
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