Script to delete all mail in mailx - Shell Programming and Scripting

sqloyd · #1 09-04-2006

Hello all,

Can some help me write a small script that when executed will delete all mail in mailx? I am having issues where /var is getting full often due to a lot of mail being stored, I would like to run a script on cron which would delete mail every 2 days, any help is much appreciated.

reborg · #2 09-04-2006

If search the forums, I posted a script to do that a couple of months back which will do exactly this.

You'll just need to run it as a cron job.

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