Currently spam is being send with the From header set to a bunch of random letters at mydomain. I have a catch-all and I have received over 2200 bounces in the past 12 hours.

I wrote a quick script using Email::Delete to remove the messages from my inbox. The script runs but only process a couple subject lines before hanging. After a few minutes I kill the process with ctrl-c. The code is:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Email::Delete qw(delete_message);

my @subject_list = (
  '^Delivery Status Notification.*$' ,
  '^Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender$' ,
  '^failure notice$' ,
  '^DELIVERY FAILURE.*$' ,
  '^Undeliverable:.*$' ,
  '^Returned mail: see transcript for deta.*' ,
);

foreach my $subject (@subject_list) {

    print $subject , "\n";

    delete_message from     => '/home/chad/Mailbox',
                   matching => sub {
                       my $message = shift;
                       $message->header('Subject') =~ m/$subject/;
    };

}

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The output is: 
$ perl remove-bounce-emails.pl
^Delivery Status Notification.*$
^Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender$
^failure notice$

$ perl remove-bounce-emails.pl
^Delivery Status Notification.*$
^Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender$

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Any idea why the program is hanging? top shows the process using next to no CPU time and very little memory.

In reply to Email::Delete trouble. by superfrink

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