Can I delete some of my mails thro' SSH ?

[kigoobe]

Well guys, I have suddenly found myself in a really terrible situation ... I have just noticed that I am not receiving mails for sometime, and I tested that I can't send any mail as well ...

On some further search, I found that that is probably because of the huge number of emails present in my account .. I never cared before as I had set unlimited space in the set up, means, it could theoritically use all my server spaces.

Now, with 20600 mails (of course 99% of them are probably spams) I am totally hanged, and I tried to delete, and found that I can't even delete my mails.

The solution is probably to delete mails using SSH, to delete a few thousands starting from the last (earliest) or even better, to delete those marked as {Definitely Spam}.

Wondering, is there a way! Thanks for any input guys.
Best.

[mainlink]

I assume you have shell access and can su to root?

Given your mail is located in /var/mail/kigoobe, I would just move it to /var/mail/kigoobe2 to clear you mail account. Later, if live becomes too boring, you may start checking the bunch in ./kigoobe2. You could even kill the spam by using some regular expression using sed.

[kigoobe]

hi mainlink

thanks for your reply. yes, i am the root so, have all the access. so, if i understand well,

I can read / check the content of my mail using SSH, right ? I tried pico usr but I see nothing there ... any idea?

thanks again.