[ale] evolution

Chuck Huber chuck at cehuber.org
Fri Jan 10 07:44:17 EST 2003


On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:44:50AM -0500, Doug McNash wrote:
> >Is there a way to delete all email at once. I have been 
> 
> 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.

You could
    rm $MAIL

That's pretty fast.

Enjoy,
    - Chuck

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