How do I quickly delete all my system email?

walterbyrd · 08-07-2008, 09:08 PM

I have about 1600 email messages from my system, I want to delete all of them, all at once. Any ideas?

Mr. C. · 08-08-2008, 12:34 AM

Where are the messages (user mailbox, mail spool)?
What mail server?
What type of mail container (mbox, Maildir)?

archtoad6 · 08-09-2008, 09:33 AM

Your post is incomplete & slightly ambiguous:

Where are these system msgs., i.e.:
1. What user's acct. are they in?
2. In what directory?
Are there other msgs. you don't want to delete?
What e-mail client have you been using?
IMAP or POP3?
What distro & DE are you using? (KMail might do this very quickly.)

PTrenholme · 08-09-2008, 09:41 AM

I suspect he's logged in as "root" and looking at the command "mail" output where all the log summaries are, typically, found.

If that's the case, a d * followed by a q command should do the trick.