sendmail? i think problem?

[gundark]

Ok I need some help, this one may cause some laughing, and I encourage it.

I have fedora running our office, yea it owns the office. My boss is a packrat and that includes emails. his spool /var/spool/mail/rharvey is over 2 gigs and as you can imagine that causes problems. I set his silly computer to archive them on his computer and delete them off my server, but its not. The other computers in the office performed this function great reduced them all to under 1mb, his will not. So can anyone tell me if there is a manual way to delete a large chunk of his 8600 emails directly from the spool, I need to keep the new emails.

[daverj]

well, since the mail file is a simple text file, you could always VI it, but good luck getting that into memory

I don't use sendmail, but postfix with Maildir format. However, if you post a sampling of the mail file, enough to cover 3 or 4 emails, (with private data removed, of course), it may not be too difficult to throw together a perl/python script that will strip away the ones you don't want. Or, you could look on the web to see if a tool already exists.

davidj

[briantan]

Try mutt. (yum install mutt)

Assuming that you want to delete by date.

# su - rharvey 
# mutt
od  - sort by date
d - hold down 'd' key and let the mails delete...
q - when done deleting

Hope this helps.

[gundark]

By the way this worked so perfect thank you very much!