From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 8:16:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594AD155CE for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:16:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16353; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:15:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:15:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Richard Cotrina Cc: bunny , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: INFORMATION OF MAIL In-Reply-To: <008e01bf221f$10c15720$7b4b0ac8@A10504> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Richard Cotrina wrote: > If you are a newbie, I would recommend you to use pine as MUA for > managing your mail. > > Look at the ports collection. > > good luck. > -----Mensaje original----- > > How to delete all the mail of root? > > Please tell me the answer. I am new to this. Assuming your problem is a huge mailbox, pine is not a suitable solution because it tends to go overboard on resource consumption. Otherwise, sure, it's a good choice for inexperienced users. rm /var/mail/root -ac -- Alex Charalabidis WebNet Memphis (901) 432-6000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message