AIX Delete all mbox content

UNIX for Beginners Q & A
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Hi,
How to Delete all mbox content in AIX?

Thanks.

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Incoming mail I presume as opposed to emptying the outgoing queue? This seems a bit harsh, but on AIX I think you could search down /var/spool/mail and /usr/spool/mail for a file named for the user you want to purge the mail for. Just delete the file.

I hope that this helps,
Robin

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That's what I always do on Ubuntu:

rm <my_mailbox>

well, maybe sometimes I am kinder with:

truncate -s 0 <my_mailbox>