For this situation it's probably rare enough to do it manually, e.g.

tellmail pathHIDDEN@yz.com
cd (path)/mdir
notepad friend.lst
select lower half of file, cut, save.

     ChrisP.


On 6/11/2015 3:55 AM, surgemailHIDDEN@etwinsite.com wrote:
> Occasionally *it happens and an account is compromised, and sends out 
> a bunch of spam to addresses that are added to the Address Whitelist 
> before the password can be changed by the administrator.
>
> It would be great to be able to delete these addresses from the 
> whitelist without affecting the existing list painstakingly built up 
> over time by the user, but since the whitelist is displayed 
> alphabetically the new "friends" are scattered all through the list, 
> making them difficult to purge.
>
> My suggestion is that on the "Friends - Outgoing" screen there be an 
> option to select addresses (already conveniently sorted by date) that 
> could then be Removed from the whitelist (there is of course an 
> existing option to Add entries to the whitelist, but this is the 
> reverse, I want to Remove).
>
> Alternatively, if the Address Whitelist could be sorted by date of an 
> address being added, it would be easy to isolate and purge addresses 
> that might have been added during a recent incident.
>
> Or maybe there is another mechanism by which to achieve this?
>
> Otherwise the collateral damage from a compromised account is that 
> there are a bunch of new addresses that can spam that user mercilessly 
> ....
>
>
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