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Subject: Re: [9fans] Deleting mail
From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
Date: Wed,  7 Jun 2006 18:22:17 -0400
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> Hi!!!
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> In acme (my beautifull editor ;-) ) I can mark the message as (deleted)=
.
>=20
> How I can delete the mail in rc? rm?
>=20
> rm mbox/*/* ???
>=20
> Thanks.
>=20
> --=20
> Rodolfo Garc=C3=ADa "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 .*/.