qpopper for root

[Charlie Root]

Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> writes:

> that's a good answer and will allow my despamming stuff to work on
> it. I was hoping to be able to clear the root mailbox as well. Is
> there an easy way to do that?

Procmail comes with a nice tool that can do that, called formail.  For
a one-time use, though, it's probably easier to just copy the mailbox
file somewhere  else and delete it.

>                               In practice if I'm not trying to clear
> roots mbox, can I not just forward mail with root's .forward file?

Sure, it will work.