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How do I delete all my mails in the mailbox on Solaris?

$mail
? d *
Illegal numeric
?

d * does not work. Also I want to retain the mailbox.

Thanks,
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How do I delete all my mails in the mailbox on Solaris?

$mail
? d *
Illegal numeric
?

d * does not work. Also I want to retain the mailbox.

Thanks,
Rahul.
On the command line outside of the mail command type all together:
mail d *
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