How to delete mail letter

Norberto Meijome freebsd at meijome.net
Mon Jul 14 03:33:55 UTC 2008


On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:26:46 +0800
EdwardKing <zhangsc at neusoft.com> wrote:

> I use mail command to read mail and quit mail,like follows:
> $mail
> ?1
> ?q
> Save 1 message in mbox
> 
> Then I use mail command again
> $mail
> No mail for edward
> 
> How to delete my letter in mbox which have read?

man mail
[...]

  Disposing of Mail
     After examining a message you can delete (d) the message or reply (r) to
     it.  Deletion causes the mail program to forget about the message.  This
     is not irreversible; the message can be undeleted (u) by giving its num-
     ber, or the mail session can be aborted by giving the exit (x) command.
     Deleted messages will, however, usually disappear never to be seen again.

[...]
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