[NTLUG:Discuss] Deleting a users email..

[Bug Hunter]

  Usually, sendmail concatenates the mail in /var/spool/mail/usrname.
using pine allows you an easy way of removing ONLY the e-mail message you
want to delete.  Otherwise you have to very carefully snip the mail out of
the middle of a large text file.

bug

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, KungFusion wrote:

> what if you opened up their mail in /var/spool/mail/username and deleted the
> offending email??? is this bad?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bug Hunter" <bughuntr at one.ctelcom.net>
> To: "NTLUG .ORG" <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 3:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Deleting a users email..
> 
> 
> >
> >   This is not so easy.  The "easiest" way to delete a mail message is to
> > set up a computer and suck the mail into a mail reading program and
> > forward it to their mailbox after deleting the mail not desired.
> >
> >   as root, you can su -l username, and then run "pine."  Pine will allow
> > you to delete the mail that needs to be deleted, and not prevent the
> > remote computer from getting the undeleted mail.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Brian Silvers wrote:
> >
> > > For sendmail,
> > > Is there a way to delete a specific email or do I have to dump all their
> > > mail in the with an echo > "" to their file in the /var/spool/mail ??
> > >
> > > I have turned into a full blown Linux Administrator(which I am just a
> guy
> > > that set up a RH6 box)since one of our IMAIL NT boxes dumped with all
> the
> > > email accounts so I am learning as much as I can as fast as I can so
> sorry
> > > for the ignorance...
> > >
> > > Brian Silvers
> > > kungfusion at x-net.com
> > >
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