How to find and remove specific email messages

I just read an article about a health department employee inadvertently sending a confidential e-mail to 800 users. The IT department shutdown the mail server and wihin an hour removed all copies of the message from the system.
I asked myself, if that happened here, how would I do that? I could shutdown the Messaging Server, but not sure what to do after that.
How would you identify, find, and remove a particular e-mail message from everyone's inbox?
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iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.26 (built Mar 31 2004)

Well, each message is stored as a simple text file in the store. Assuming unix, you could do a pretty simple find and grep, looking for a key phrase. exec rm from that, and you're done....
After such brute force methods, you do need to run
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