how to delete multiple mails under solaris 2.8

[andimue]

Hello,

when I return from my holiday I got more than 200 mails in my solaris 2.8 mailbox (cronjob-logs,...). The rest of the day I didnt nothing else than typing "d" and return in the mail-program. Is their a way to delete a range of mail , e.g. d 1-50 to delete mail #1 to #50 ? I would also appreciate a shellscript example.

Thanks
Andi

 

[vikramkalsi]

Hi andimue,
Have you tried giving "d 1-50" at the prompt of the mail-program?
I use "mailx" on SunSolaris 2.6 and "d 1-50" works fine to delete mails from 1 to 50.
Hope this helped you.

 

[andimue]

Hi vikramkalsi,
you're right, "d 1-50" works fine under mailx ( but not under mail ).
I normaly used mail , but why not use mailx ?

Thanks alot

andimue

 

[harris79]

If you want to get rid of them all, use "d *".
Again this works in mailx not mail.

Steve