From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 19 20:07:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C88E16A4CE for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:07:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from o2.hostbaby.com (o2.hostbaby.com [208.187.29.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D16D443D2F for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:07:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceo@l-i-e.com) Received: (qmail 75499 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Sep 2004 20:07:11 -0000 Received: from 66.243.145.38 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com); by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:07:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2041.66.243.145.38.1095624431.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <20040919133714.63458.qmail@web41206.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040919133714.63458.qmail@web41206.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:07:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Richard Lynch" To: "susmit sarkar" User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail X-Mailer: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deleting mails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:07:10 -0000 susmit sarkar wrote: > I know that the question I am asking might sound very stupid. But it has > me really perplexed. It relates to Unix mail. I use the d command to > delete mails. Like > d > or > d > But sometimes I find that the mails get deleted and sometimes not. I want > the mails that I delete to be deleted sure shot. I have tried exiting > using q but still the mails are there when I check back later. We have a > BSD system. Please advise me how I can delete mail that I want deleted > without the fear of it reappearing again when I log in and check the next > time. After you hit 'q' to quit, do you sometimes see an error message about a segfault? Because if you do, then that's the times when mail didn't delete anything. I've seen this under RedHat 8 a lot, and pretty much only delete a few messages at a time. It seems to happen "more" if I page back-and-forth in the header list, deleting more or less sporadically, then if I delete the first few messages and then quit. I pretty much wouldn't use 'mail' to read any large bulk mailboxes -- These are just cronjob outputs on a couple machines that can no longer send email, thanks to the folks who decided that one way to cut down on spam was to stop taking email unless reverse-DNS matched up. Gee, thanks. Now I get to log into boxes all the time to check my cron jobs. :-( -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm