delete emails from shell

[Valuehosted]

I have a couple of users with previous default emails to useraccount, since then changed but I need to delete the emails in the email accounts manually from shell.

I know this is possible from shell but I forget how to; anyone?

Thanks,

--Tone

[chirpy]

If you simply want to remove all the emails from their inbox, then you can:

cd /home/account/mail/domain.com/username/
or
cd /home/account/mail/
cat /dev/null > inbox

If you want to delete individual mails (which you probably don't) then you can do so with:

cd /home/account/mail/domain.com/username/
or
cd /home/account/mail/
mail -f inbox

which puts you into mail (? for help).

[Valuehosted]

Jonathan,

awesome - that did it - THANK YOU!

--Tone