Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:22:41 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Neigaard?= <neigaard@e-box.dk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleting all mail? Message-ID: <20011027092241.P552@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <732098617.20011026172831@e-box.dk>; from neigaard@e-box.dk on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:28:31PM %2B0200 References: <732098617.20011026172831@e-box.dk>
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:28:31PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: > I have 2700 mails in my mailbox, most of them are warnings from a > crontab job. I have fixed this crontab job now, and I then want to > delete all this mail. How do I do this? If you don't have any more usefull mails in your mailbox, rm /var/mail/youruserid will do the trick. If you have one or more important mails, try to delete it with the "mail" command. Or make life easier on yourself and install a real mailreader like "elm" or "mutt". Edwin, goes for mutt -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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