Mailx administration

Hi,

1) What do you mean by set quotas?
2) If you want to delete all mails you can do this:

> /var/spool/mail/username

Where username is the username for which you want to delete all mails.

Cheers,
K.

Thanks for reply,

When I say quotas, I want to limit the maximum size of all mailboxes to say 100MB or so..

Cheers

K

You can limit mailbox size using your MTA (Mail Transfer Agent)  max file size setting ( depending on your MTA) or Quota over your filesystem.

Cheers,
K.

How can I ascertain which MTA I am using (within Red Hat Enterprise?)

Thanks

K

RHEL uses sendmail by default. If you2ve installed postfix it would replace your sendmail. If you have system-switchmail command installed it would show you the default MTA and any alternatives. If not you can install it with:

yum install system-switch-mail

If you're not able to install the program you can still use rpm:

chkconfig --list |grep :on | egrep -e "postfix|sendmail"

Will show you the active MTA.

Cheers,
K.

Sorry, I think this question is going in the wrong direction from all that time ago.

Put simply, I am logged into Linux, I type "mail" and I am told I have 14382 new messages.  Obviously I can't manage this number of emails in this manner so I was wondering what tools are avaliable to help me; be it through the GUI or some kind of Legacy app.

Thanks and sorry for confusion.

K