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Re: [cobalt-developers] Monster Admin Mailbox
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Monster Admin Mailbox
- From: chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Dec 5 15:26:01 2000
- Organization: Zarcrom Industries Corporation
- List-id: Mailing list for developers on Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
cat < /dev/null >/var/spool/mail/admin
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any way of safely deleting the admin mailbox - got one that
> > is 3 GB and growing (short answer is that the domain name was
> > used by professional spammers as the FROM and REPLY-TO
> > address) Its now too big to open unless someone has a utility to
> > delete mail from mailboxes without querying the whole thing - fills
> > the tmp partition :(
> >
> > Any way of piping admin to null - I would assume just a header in
> > the aliases of:
> > admin /dev/null
> > but life isn't usually that straightforward.
> >
> > Please include my personal address in cc as I am not on the list
> > yet.
> >
> > Kind regards, Latimer
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