CPanel/VPS - Search all messages for URL

Question

I need a command that will search through the body text of all emails (sent/received/junk) for all email accounts on a VPS server for a particular URL (which may be embedded in text). Possibly a grep command?

Apologies if this is obvious!

Answer 1

You can use a very simple and basic grep command:

grep -ri 'particular url' /home/*/mail/*

-i (ignore case so no case sensitive search) -r recursive; searches through all the files/folders

Give it a try!