Re: question about deleting mail ...
* Wilkinson, Alex <alex.wilkinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
>
> can one delete all the contents of a mailbox in mutt *without*
> having to change into the mailbox ? I have 5000 msgs in a mailbox
> and it will take forever over NFS to change into that folder.
Assuming you have ssh/telnet access to that machine:
$ rm -i ~/Mail/mailbox-to-be-deleted
will delete the whole mailbox. If you need the mailbox to exist for
your MUA:
$ touch ~/Mail/mailbox-name
$ chmod 600 ~/Mail/mailbox-name
Don't know of another way, sorry. That's the way I'd do it.
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