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Mailx administration
Hi all,
When I log into my system (Red Hat Enterprise 2.6.9-42.ELsmp) I am told I have new mail.
I can run "mailx" to look at my mail but I have 13k + mails waiting for me.
How can I perform basic admimnistration on this mail box. i.e:
1) Set quotas
2) Bulk Delete
Thanks
K
When I log into my system (Red Hat Enterprise 2.6.9-42.ELsmp) I am told I have new mail.
I can run "mailx" to look at my mail but I have 13k + mails waiting for me.
How can I perform basic admimnistration on this mail box. i.e:
1) Set quotas
2) Bulk Delete
Thanks
K
ASKER
Thanks for reply,
When I say quotas, I want to limit the maximum size of all mailboxes to say 100MB or so..
Cheers
K
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.
Cheers,
K.
ASKER
How can I ascertain which MTA I am using (within Red Hat Enterprise?)
Thanks
K
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.
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.
ASKER
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
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
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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.