[ale] evolution

cfowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Thu Jan 9 11:06:45 EST 2003


This is what I was looking at doing.


On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 11:04, Geoffrey wrote:
> Every mailer I've used on a unix box stores the mail as plain text in 
> separate directories based on the mail tool.  What I do is, go to the 
> directory where the email resides, tar up the particular directory I 
> want to archive and then delete those emails via the email client I'm using.
> 
> cfowler wrote:
> > Is there a way to archive this data like in Outlook?  I  try not to
> > delete mail.
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 10:44, Doug McNash wrote:
> > 
> >>rm -f /var/spool/mail/<your_user_id_here>
> >>or 
> >>cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/<your_user_id_here>
> >>
> >>I'm not sure which is faster, both are pretty fast.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Is there a way to delete all email at once. I have been 
> >>>lazy about this
> >>>and I have like 6000 in my inbox. I am using evolution.
> >>>
> >>
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> The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
> Think about it...
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