How to make mail shorter

[babeo]

Hi all<br><br>It seems like I have problem with mail, and I don't know how to fix it, here is the message<br>&quot; mail: Too many letters, overflowing letters concatenated&quot;<br>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.<br><br>I don't know how to truncate the mail to make it shorter.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.

 

[bigscouse]

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. <br>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.<br> <p>Ged Jones<br><a href=mailto:gedejones@hotmail.com>gedejones@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[babeo]

Hey<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>I can back up the mail now and make it shorter.&nbsp;&nbsp;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.<br><br>Thanks alot<br><br><br>UNIX is still a mile for me to go and to refresh