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Delete all mails on Solaris
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.
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Old 06-12-2007
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Old 06-12-2007
Code:
>"$MAIL"

Code:
printf "d*q"|mailx -N

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Old 06-02-2008
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Originally Posted by rahulrathod
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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