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> From:          CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net>

> chem@i-p-d.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Now that I have the temp-files of mail.local on var, with lots of 
> > empty space, mail.local managed to deliver 1 of 5 (!) 40 
> > MB-messages in my root-inbox, cause it has been sent over 5 days ago, 
> > and wasnt able to deliver it..... I deleted the 4 others in the 
> > mailqueue. Now - obviously - I can't open the root-inbox no more. Is 
> > there a way to delete this message, without loosing all my other 
> > messages in the root in-box? Or do I just delete my whole root-file 
> > at /var/mail? 
> > 
> > And in case you are wondering, I have set MaxMessageSize in sendmail 
> > at 2 MB now.......
> > 
> 
> The easiest thing is to get rid of the file, if the other messages
> are unimportant. 
> 
> OK: lets say the others are important.  THey will be located
> at the head of the file.  Suppose you /know/ they are, total,
> less than 1 MB in size. Then to grab the first 1 MB of the file,
> use dd,  as in:
> 
> 	dd if=/var/mail/root of=/tmp/somefile bs=1k count=1k
> 
> Now look at 'somefile' with vi, and work your way down to the
> start of the bad/big mail; Delete from there to the end of file.
> 
> then you can rm /var/mail/root, i.e. mv /tmp/somefile /var/mail/root
> 
> Be certain that the permissions are good! Should be rw-------,
> owned root.wheel
> 
> This can also be done with "head", or with "formail" but the
> dd is straightforward. 
> 
> Dave

It worked! Thanks for all the help :)

Gina
> 

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