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Old 07-17-2006
How to mark ALL mail items as read?
Hi guys.

Does anyone know if there is a mail command that will allow you to flag all mail items as being read? I've checked out the man mail pages, but can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Smilie

We are running UNIX AIX 5.2.

Thanks in advance,
Kev
# 2  
Old 07-17-2006
Strange, this question was asked a couple of days ago, but I can't remember if I replied, so I'll do so this time.

If you have mailx you can:

delete *

otherwise

you could remove the mail spool for the user in question if you have the required permissions to do so.

or else do sometthing linke this:

Code:
#! /usr/bin/ksh
#
#
MAIL_INDEX_LIST=$(mail << EOF | sed -n 's/^[>     ][      ]*\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/p'
h a
q
EOF
)

mail |&

for i in $MAIL_INDEX_LIST ; do
    print -p p $i   ### EDIT change d to p
done
print -p q

Last edited by reborg; 07-17-2006 at 12:54 PM..
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Old 07-17-2006
Hi reborg,

Yeah, a similar question was asked a couple of days ago, but that was asking for a way to delete all items from a mailbox. I was wondering if there was a quick and simple way of flagging all mail items as being read. (...without deleting them).
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Old 07-17-2006
Sorry, my mistake.

see my edits above in the ksh script.
 
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