/usr/spool/mail filter/editor?
Hi Ho Silver
silver at xrtll.uucp
Sun Jan 20 07:09:57 AEST 1991
In comp.unix.shell, nichols at en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) typed:
$I am interested in a shell script that will, upon execution, view
$the contents of the /usr/spool/mail/lname file and remove any mail
$from a certain user or list of users. I'm sure it has been done
$many times, but I don't have the skills yet to write it on my own.
Depending on your mailer, the easiest way to do this may well be
simply to run mail -u lname with the following redirected to its input:
d whoever-is-to-be-deleted
q
The dumb mailer that comes with Xenix, for example, allows you to
delete messages from a person as above. Heck, if you wanted to, you
could even put it into a here document and make about a four-line shell
script out of it.
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