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full mail file - how to remove

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Nosh

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Folks,

I am not a Unix administrator - just a lowly programmer.

I have a user whose unix mail files appear to be really full. Can I just log in as root and delete the mail file in question? Will it be recreated when new mail is sent to it?

Cheers
 
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Nosh (which reminds me, it's lunchtime!), yes, but possibly the way to do it would be to log in as root, cd to where the mail file is and do:

cat /dev/null > usermailfilename

This retains the (empty) file and permissions. I'm assuming there's nothing important in the file to be kept? Cheers.
 
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