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Created June 17, 2015 12:19
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Search mail-chain in maillog by email
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search_maillog_by_email.sh
#/bin/sh
EMAIL=$1
MAILLOG_FILE=/var/log/mail/maillog
if [[ $EMAIL =~ "^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+" ]]; then
cat $MAILLOG_FILE | grep $EMAIL | awk -F": " '{print $2}' | grep -v "NOQUEUE" | xargs -I{} sh -c "grep {} $MAILLOG_FILE --color=auto; echo '-----------------------'"
else
echo "Use like: mailfind [email protected]"
fi
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