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Old 11-22-2019
AIX Delete all mbox content

Hi,
How to Delete all mbox content in AIX?

Thanks.

Last edited by big123456; 11-22-2019 at 09:57 AM..
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Old 11-22-2019
Incoming mail I presume as opposed to emptying the outgoing queue? This seems a bit harsh, but on AIX I think you could search down /var/spool/mail and /usr/spool/mail for a file named for the user you want to purge the mail for. Just delete the file.



I hope that this helps,
Robin
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Old 11-22-2019
That's what I always do on Ubuntu:

Code:
rm <my_mailbox>

well, maybe sometimes I am kinder with:

Code:
truncate -s 0 <my_mailbox>

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