Hi all

It seems like I have problem with mail, and I don't know how to fix it, here is the message
" mail: Too many letters, overflowing letters concatenated"
so when I go to mail, it will display a huge mail, and I have to wait around 5 minutes then I can I read the most current one at the end.

I don't know how to truncate the mail to make it shorter.  I once copy the file mbox to another filename, means the mbox is now 0 bite, but when I go to mail box on the next day - I assume to have only 1 new mail, but I still have the same problem of loading/running all old mails for 5 minutes in order to get the new/latest one display.

There is a mail file for each user in /var/mail, it is a text file and can be manipulated as such. You could create a cronjob to manage it but I would look first at why you are getting so much mail.
It will often be that jobs are running which are not having their output routed to log files or /dev/null and as a consequence it is routed to mail.

Ged Jones
gedejones@hotmail.com

Hey

Thanks.

I can back up the mail now and make it shorter.  Yes, it is the cronjob to produce that mail and I need those emails, but I prefer to read one at the time and the new one only.

Thanks alot


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