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Old 07-13-2006
Data How to delete all email messages at ONE time?

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!
# 2  
Old 07-13-2006
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
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# 3  
Old 07-13-2006
Data still have problems!!!!

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!
# 4  
Old 07-13-2006
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
# 5  
Old 07-14-2006
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.
# 6  
Old 07-14-2006
It can be done by truncating the mail spool for the user

if you have mailx

try delete *

Code:
#! /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

** note do not just copy and paste the code.
each
Code:
  [        ]

is a [ followed by a space and a tab followed by a ].

Last edited by reborg; 06-12-2007 at 05:51 AM..
 
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