How to delete all local mail

[Garry Harthill]

On 20/01/06, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> My /var/spool/mail/$username file seems to be corrupted, it is over 500 MB,
> how do I purge it? Is it safe to just delete the file?
>
>  Thanks
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Just a simple: "> /var/spool/mail/$username" will do the trick