Re: [cobalt-users] How to cancel email

[Kul <WebMaster@xxxxxxx>]

Paul Leung wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a Raq3i, some of my users asked me to cancel some of their mail (not
> all) in their mailbox. What have I to do?
> Thanks.
> Paul
>

Hi Paul,

Heres an nicer way to mess with mail, while keeping the mailbox integrity....
Also reduces the risk of loosing mail that **IS** wanted and new stuff that arrives:

(Replace fred with the users account name)
Telnet/SSH as root:
    cd /home/spool/mail/
    cp fred /tmp/fred
    ls -oA
# find an account that is of **ZERO** bytes (no mails), ie "admin"
    cat admin > fred
# now thats the email account empty, so if any further emails arrive they will be saved in "fred" as normal.
# now edit (with your favorite editor<g>) the "/tmp/fred" mailbox, removing any unwanted mails!
    pico -w /tmp/fred
# Done that! good!
    cat /tmp/fred >> fred
# NOTICE the two > this time, this is append, NOT overwrite! (so if any mails did arrive during the hours you spent removing mail from "/tmp/fred", they will still be able to be retreived ok.  - although they will be collected in the wrong order!)

When your happy (and the user is too), you may delete the "/tmp/fred" mailbox file
    rm /tmp/fred


FINISHED!

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Regards,
Kul