Mails in Putty!!

[dWight]

Hello

How do you delete mail in putty?

[valentine]

Originally Posted by dWight

Hello

How do you delete mail in putty?

/var/spool/mail/root is the place from were you can remove the mails suppose if you want to remove mails of root go here /var/spool/mail/root and delete the mails OR if you want to to remove the mails of a user then go /var/spool/mail/username thats it and remove the mails.


If you want to remove the mails from the exim then follow the following commands

exim -bp

The out put of the above command will be with some message ID like:

exim -bp
12d 3.0K 1Qe0j7-0004Fa-5x root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx

The after that fire the below comand:

exim -Mrm {message-id}

To remove all messages from the queue, enter:

# exim -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | bash

How to delete frozen emails

Below mentioned is the commands for deleting frozen mails.

exiqgrep -z -i | xargs exim -Mrm

Alternate command to delete frozen mails

exim -bp | awk ‘$6 == “frozen” {print $3}’ | xargs exim -Mrm

To check number of frozen mails

exim -bp | grep frozen | wc -l

All this command will delete the mails and is used from the shell (i.e using putty)

[dWight]

Thanks Valentine for this helpful tutorial. Now shake your belly up and accept virtual wine!! Cheers