Re: [MLUG] linux pop3 mail nuker?

[John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Not quiet,
Apparently even for cable modem users,
it takes a long time to download the emails then delete them.

I want to  delete them  from the server without downloading,
I've done this along time ago.

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Mark A. Haidekker wrote:

> On Monday 03 February 2003 07:33 pm, John Engelbrecht wrote:
> > I came accross a mail nuke for win95 a long.. time ago,
> > where if you have too much mail and it is going to take
> > hrs to download, you can just nuke it clean.
> >
> > I have 1921 email messages in my socket.net account,
> > And I want to nuke the messages fast, fetchmail
> > can't seem to even delete one of them messages.
> >
> > Anyone know of a linux/unix program that will
> > get the job done?
>
> Nuke the mesages? Would
>
> cat /dev/null > /var/spool/mail/jengelbr
>
> work for you?
>
> Mark
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