Deleting mail in the POP3 files

[m1bzm]

Hi all,

I constantly get users ringing us asking us to delete the contents of their POP3 mailbox. The only way I know how to do this at this time is to go into /var/spool/mail and open the file that coresponds to their POP3 account and delete all the lines except the top section. This works great until the user has a file attachment and they would like it deleting whilst keeping all the other mail.

Does anyone know of a small util that can show me what mail is waiting for a specific user and give me the option to delete individual messages inside that file?

Thanks in advace for any help

Darren

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

I find it easiest to do this via telnet. You just telnet to the pop3 server on port 110 and then do something like this :

USER fred
PASS fredpass
LIST [produces numbered list with sizes]
DELE 200 [delete item 200]
QUIT

See -->

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1939.html

Regards