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Deleting the old mail messages

z/OS UNIX System Services User's Guide
SA23-2279-00

If you want to delete only the mail messages sent by exrecover:

  1. Enter
    mailx
  2. Use the mailx commands to read each message: Enter the number of the message
  3. Enter
    d
    to delete that message.

To delete all your mail messages, issue:

  1. rm /usr/mail/$LOGNAME

    But be careful because this will delete all your mail messages.

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