RE: [K12OSN] Adminstration question

[jam McQuil com]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, wlewis wrote:

> Being a n00bie to Linux, and having inherited a RH7.3 mail server. Going
> into /var/spool/mail<username>, (this will be a stupid question) exactly
> how would one delete certain emails from user accounts. I have a user
> who cannot delete email from their account and have been trying to find
> documentation or figure out how to browse the mail on the server.
> Forgive my ignorance, but I came from M$ background. ;-(

Have that user bring up a shell using xterm or some other terminal
program.

Then, have they type the command:  mail

That is a command-line utility for reading emails.  It's not terribly
user-friendly, but it can be used to get the job done.

Jim McQuillan
jam Ltsp org