From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 16:22:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD8B37B403 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8322B68F; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 01:22:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BA0BC15D; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:22:41 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:22:41 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Neigaard?= Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleting all mail? Message-ID: <20011027092241.P552@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Neigaard?= , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <732098617.20011026172831@e-box.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <732098617.20011026172831@e-box.dk>; from neigaard@e-box.dk on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:28:31PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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