RE: [cobalt-users] Mail queue reporting problems

[Sales - Way to the Web <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carrie,

> went to /var/spool/mail
> removed her mail file  (hoping that it would remake itself 
> when she got new mail)
> rm slinn

If you're on a RAQ, you're doing this in the *wrong* place. The files in
/var/spool/mail are only links to the mail files.

You should look in /home/spool/mail/slinn

These will give you the correct size of the mailbox (as opposed to the size
of the link file which you're getting at the moment), and yes, you can rm
the file if you want to empty it out, but if all you did before was to rm
the link file the original will not have been zero'ed.

So, size of mailbox is:
ls -la /home/spool/mail/slinn

Delete the mailbox (will be recreated on next email):
rm /home/spool/mail/slinn

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson

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