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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Purge MAil file Post 302483919 by sysgate on Wednesday 29th of December 2010 03:10:57 AM
Old 12-29-2010
You can simply use "mail" and then "d*" - this will delete all the mail messages.
 

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mhmail(1mh)															       mhmail(1mh)

Name
       mhmail - send or read mail

Syntax
       mhmail [ addrs ...  ] [ options ]

Description
       The program is intended as a replacement for the standard mail programs, and See and for more details of these mail programs.  When invoked
       without arguments, it simply invokes to incorporate new messages from the user's maildrop.  When one or more users is specified, a  message
       is  read  from  the  standard  input  and spooled to a temporary file.  then invokes with the name of the temporary file as its argument to
       deliver the message to the specified user.

       Normally, people will use and to send messages.

Options
       -body text
		 Specifies the text of the message.  If it is specified, then the standard input is not read.

       -cc addrs Specifies addresses to be placed in the cc: field of the message.

       -from addr
		 Specifies the content of the From: header of the draft.  The address given is placed in the From:  field  of  the  message.   The
		 Sender: field is filled in correctly by

       -help	 Prints a list of the valid options for this command.

       -mts smtp Specifies  the  mail  system  over which mail is sent.  The only value allowed is smtp, which is the standard ULTRIX mail system.
		 Additional values are supported only for use with other mail systems.

       -subject text
		 Provides the text of the Subject: field of the message.

Restrictions
       Messages with a null body part will not be sent by You must include some body text in all messages to be sent by

       For this version, the -mts option only supports the value smtp.	Additional values are supported for use only with other mail systems.

Files
       Program to incorporate a maildrop into a folder.

       Program to deliver a message.

       Temporary copy of message.

See Also
       inc(1mh), post(8mh)

																       mhmail(1mh)
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