From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Deleting mail
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:22:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f11c57cb436b9bdfd80b84dc19d9cb8@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3096bd910606071516s4324759cy3d9cb1dcba044ca9@mail.gmail.com>
> Hi!!!
>
> I have my pop3 account with tooooo much old mail. I have the mail in
> /mail/fs/mbox/* and I would like to delete it.
>
> In acme (my beautifull editor ;-) ) I can mark the message as (deleted).
>
> How I can delete the mail in rc? rm?
>
> rm mbox/*/* ???
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Rodolfo García "kix"
chmod -l /mail/box/<usr>/mbox
>/mail/box/bwc/mbox
chmod +l /mail/box/<usr>/mbox
But it will delete ALL the messages.
Take a look at the contents of the mail file
and you will see that it's just a text file where
each message begins with a line /^From .*/.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-07 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-07 22:16 Rodolfo (kix)
2006-06-07 22:22 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
2006-06-07 22:36 ` Rodolfo (kix)
2006-06-07 22:37 ` geoff
2006-06-07 22:39 ` Brantley Coile
2006-06-07 22:51 ` Rodolfo (kix)
2006-06-07 22:54 ` geoff
2006-06-07 22:45 ` Rodolfo (kix)
2006-06-07 22:38 ` Brantley Coile
2006-06-08 12:04 ` rog
2006-06-08 17:28 ` Rodolfo (kix)
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