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Re: [cobalt-users] How to delete mail through telnet?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] How to delete mail through telnet?
- From: eric <eric@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Mar 20 02:23:10 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Adam Holt wrote:
> Hello,
> When I login via telnet, the server tells me I have mail,
> I type in mail, and am shown the following:
> "/var/spool/mail/admin": 1223 messages 1223 new
>
> So, now I'd like to know how to delete all these messages??
>
> Can someone tell me how to delete them in one big swoop?
>
> Thanks
>
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Type in at the prompt
> /var/spool/mail/admin
This will zero out the file, thus deleting all the messages. I take by
this you do not want to read any of them.