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   root to root   
   Re: How to delete old mail using mailx   
   09 May 25 02:55:54   
   
   From: NoEMail@home.org   
      
   root  wrote:   
   > I've been in the hospital and over that period I   
   > accumulated 41 messages go back three days. I use   
   > fetchmail to get the messages, procmail to proces   
   > them, and mailx to read them. Normally I just use   
   > d* under mailx to delete them after. I can delete   
   > /var/spool/mail/root, but they just come back   
   > on the next fetchmail. I know I have done this   
   > before but I am too tired to search for it.   
   >   
   > I am fetching mail from gmail.   
      
   I solved the problem, I had -a in the fetchmail invocation.   
   My instance of gmail at gmail.com had not changed because   
   my server has not been booted since I returned.   
      
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