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Date:      Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:55:37 -0500
From:      Bobby Walker <bob@safeweb.net>
To:        Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: popper problem with authentication
Message-ID:  <35E9D869.746BDBCD@safeweb.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980830184156.663A-100000@beef.cybertouch.org>

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Lanny Baron wrote:
> 
>         Hello Bobby,
> 
>         Thanks for the help but you cant do :
> beef# rm .*
> rm: "." and ".." may not be removed
> 
> this would actually remove all the users from /var/mail would it not??
> 
> Lanny

It won't remove "." and ".." but it will remove all the .<user>.pop
files which are just temporary files anyway.  Popper creates more as
needed.  And since all the user mail files do not start with a "." they
don't get removed.  I've had to do this any number of times.

-- Bob

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