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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Delete Mailbox Post 14770 by thehoghunter on Wednesday 6th of February 2002 09:30:01 AM
Old 02-06-2002
Did you mean mbox or .mbox?

Following from mailx man page:
Incoming mail is stored in a standard file for each user,
called the mailbox for that user. When the mail utilities
are called to read messages, the mailbox is the default
place to find them. As messages are read, they are marked
to be moved to a secondary file for storage, unless specific
action is taken, so that the messages need not be seen
again. This secondary file is called the mbox and is nor-
mally located in the user's HOME directory (see MBOX in
ENVIRONMENT for a description of this file). Messages can
be saved in other secondary files named by the user. Mes-
sages remain in a secondary file until forcibly removed.

( or did you mean mail.rc ?)
After executing the system startup file, the mail utilities
execute the optional personal startup file $HOME/.mailrc,
wherein the user can override the values of the internal
variables as set by the system startup file.

thehoghunter
 

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PACKF(1)							     [nmh-1.5]								  PACKF(1)

NAME
packf - pack messages in nmh folder into a single file SYNOPSIS
packf [+folder] [msgs] [-file name] [-mbox] [-mmdf] [-version] [-help] DESCRIPTION
Packf will pack copies of messages from a folder, into a single file. If the -mbox switch is given (the default), then the messages are separated using mbox (uucp) style delimiters. This is the format used by most mail clients (elm, mailx, etc.). If the -mmdf switch is given, then the messages are separated by mmdf style delimiters. Each message in the file is separated by four CTRL-A's and a newline. You may specify the name of the file in which to use with the -file name switch. If you do not specify the name of the file, it will default to "msgbox". If the given file name points to an existing file, then the specified messages will be appended to the end of the file, otherwise the file will be created and the messages appended. packf makes an mbox-style delimiter by examining the first line of the message. If the first line is a "Return-Path" field, its address and the current date and time are used. Otherwise, if the first line has an "X-Envelope-From" field, its contents (which should already be in the correct format) are used. Otherwise, a dummy address and the current date and time are used. Messages that are packed by packf can be unpacked using inc. FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile .msgbox.map A binary index of the file PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To determine the user's nmh directory Current-Folder: To find the default current folder Msg-Protect: To set mode when creating a new `file' SEE ALSO
inc(1), msh(1) DEFAULTS
`+folder' defaults to the current folder `msgs' defaults to all `-mbox' `-file ./msgbox' CONTEXT
If a folder is given, it will become the current folder. The first message packed will become the current message. MH.6.8 11 June 2012 PACKF(1)
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