On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Chip Old wrote:

> To delete all mailboxes that have not been accessed in the past 30 days,
> use `find /var/mail -atime +30 -print -exec rm {} \;' .  That will list
> each offending mailbox, then delete it.

cat /dev/null > $mailbox is usually safer than rm, especially in systems
where the mail spool directory isn't set 1777. (Some people _are_ that
paranoid)



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