Article:  |
Update to Mac OS X Terminal, Part 3 | |
| Subject: | How to delete messages saved in mbox | |
| Date: | 2002-07-08 21:45:43 | |
| From: | sacerdos | |
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As a novice to UNIX, I sweated through Cris's update and I guess everything works ok. I stopped at the point of setting up a GUI Mail application to access my local Unix mailbox.
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How to delete messages saved in mbox
2003-03-31 03:51:15 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Messages kept in my inbox mail and sent mails which are of no need to me any more I bring to scene the text and i click delete but i dont see that my space in my html minimised . I think that i do something wrong can you help me
mail -s testing yourusername
blah-blah-blah
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Note the period as it indicates the end of the message. To check whether mail is functioning properly, read the log by entering "tail /private/var/log/mail.log". Each message will have at least two entries in the log, one ending with "relay=" and the other ending with "Sent" . Other entries are errors, some of which you can ignore (except it fills-up the log) as the mail gets sent anyway, but others can drive you crazy trying to figure-out what is wrong. It's important at this point not to blindly follow what you read about sendmail on the web because MacOS X (darwin) is not the same as Linux or other Unixes and your machine can get really hosed (I speak from experience :-)