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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

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