Amen to what ibmtech and rbatte1 said, they are correct.
In principle it is the duty of the admin to read such messages. Having said this: reading several GB of text messages might take you longer than your active job life and i bet the first of these messages are from a time computers ran on steadm, not on electric power.
Therefore i suggest you: delete the mail file for "XXXX". This is an ordinary user and he should have checked his mail when he had the opportunity. This gives you some free space back.
Second, log on as root and open the mail. Delete all messages save for the last 100 or so and read these. Perhaps there is a pattern to them and what you have deleted is either outdated or repetition of this pattern anyway.
Do the same for the Oracle user. See the man page of "mail" on how to delete a range of messages. It will tell you how many messages there are in the inbox, so you can calculate how many you can delete. Note that they are sorted chronologically with the newest messages holding the highest numbers.
From now on you should read the mails to root and other system users daily. Either these messages are important and will help you better administer the system OR they are superfluous and you should switch their generation off at the source.
On a second thought: if you do not check the mail regularly you probably do not trim /var/adm/wtmp either. You might have a look at it and maybe trim it. DO NOT delete it! "zap" the file:
i am on aix,
in the /var/spool/mail ,i have an entry as below, after doing a ls -ltr
-rw-rw---- 1 ai mail 3898 Sep 02 11:26 mei
-rw-rw---- 1 root mail 22900 Nov 08 14:55 root
shouldnt the ai and mei be the same just like root, root?
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Now I use solaris 10 and I try to forward mail from /var/mail/username to their external mail so what should I do?
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