Re: [9fans] Deleting mail

["Rodolfo (kix)" <rodolfogarciap@gmail.com>]

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Thanks rog,

now I have a "new" pop3 account.

Thank you very much.


2006/6/8, rog@vitanuova.com <rog@vitanuova.com>:
>
> > In acme (my beautifull editor ;-) ) I can mark the message as (deleted).
> >
> > How I can delete the mail in rc? rm?
> >
> > rm mbox/*/* ???
>
> actually, you can do that (although it'll be very slow):
>         rm /mail/fs/mbox/*
> the slowness comes from the fact that it rewrites the entire
> mailbox after every remove.
>
> quicker would be:
>
>         cd /mail/fs/mbox
>         echo delete mbox * > ../ctl
>
> the advantage of doing this over just truncating the mailbox
> file is that you don't have to delete all the messages.
> for instance, you could delete the oldest 500 messages with
>
>         cd /mail/fs/mbox
>         echo delete mbox `{ls -n | sed 500q} > ../ctl
>



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Rodolfo García "kix"

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