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From: "Rodolfo (kix)" <rodolfogarciap@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Deleting mail
Date: Thu,  8 Jun 2006 00:36:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3096bd910606071536j737605cdgfc17a5dfd9f95fc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f11c57cb436b9bdfd80b84dc19d9cb8@coraid.com>

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Umm

It do not erase the mail. Why I change the exclusive mode?

Thanks.

2006/6/8, Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.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 .*/.
>
>


-- 
Rodolfo García "kix"

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-07 22:36 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
2006-06-07 22:36   ` Rodolfo (kix) [this message]
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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