These are some of the mail command:

Usage:
? print this help message
# display message number #
- print previous
+ next (no delete)
! cmd execute cmd
<CR> next (no delete)
a position at and read newly arrived mail
d [#] delete message # (default current message)
dp delete current message and print the next
dq delete current message and exit
h a display all headers
h d display headers of letters scheduled for deletion
h [#] display headers around # (default current message)
m user mail (and delete) current message to user
n next (no delete)
p print (override any warnings of binary content)
P override default 'brief' mode and display ALL header lines
q, ^D quit
r [args] reply to (and delete) current letter via mail [args]
s [files] save (and delete) current message (default mbox)
u [#] undelete message # (default current message)
w [files] save (and delete) current message without header
x exit without changing mail
y [files] save (and delete) current message (default mbox)


Is there 1 command to delete all your email?

THANKS!

deleting mail in Unix

type mail

d * will remove all mail

d 1 3 deletes the 1st and 3rd messages
d 1-3 deletes messages 1 through 3
d * deletes all your messages
d deletes the current message

type in mail
then
? d *
Illegal numeric
?


or

? d 1-3
Illegal numeric
?


These are messages that I got!!!

Please let me know what is wrong!

Not sure

Works on AIX 5.2

Mail [5.2 UCB] [AIX 5.X] Type ? for help.
"/var/spool/mail/maestro": 2 messages 2 new
>N 1 MAILER-DAEMON Tue Jul 11 20:29 83/2771 "Warning: could not send mess"
N 2 MAILER-DAEMON Wed Jul 12 00:29 83/2773 "Warning: could not send mess"

? d *
? quit
(maestro@)/usr/local/tivoli/maestro>mail
No mail for maestro

I think that deleting all messages can be done by truncating the /var/mail/<userid> files as well. But not sure if that will have any unwanted side effects.

It can be done by truncating the mail spool for the user

if you have mailx

try delete *

#! /usr/bin/ksh
#
# delete_mails.ksh
# 

#
# You may want a confirmation dialog here, delete can't be reversed.
#

MAIL=$(mail << EOF | sed -n 's/^[>    ][      ]*\([0-9][0-9]*\)[      ][      ]*.*/\1/p'
h a
EOF
)
mail |&
for mail in $MAIL; do
    print -p d $mail
print q

sleep 1
exit 0

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