Re: [cobalt-users] Flushing a mailbox

["Babu P. Yogarajah" <bpy@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:18 25/08/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I hope this is not a dumb question:  What is the best way to delete all mail
>in a mailbox without using a mail client and deleting each mail one at a
>time?  If the mailbox is deleted from /var/spool/mail will it be re-created
>when the next email is sent?
>
>I have a guy that is subscribed to two mailing lists and has over 800
>messages in his mailbox.  I want to be able to clean it out quickly without
>deleting the user account and starting over.


Hi Scott,

Login as root to your RAQ
then do
cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/USERID


Best regards,
Babu P. Yogarajah
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