topic Re: mailbox locations in Operating System - HP-UX

Putty

Tom Garber — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:43:03 GMT

I need to access email accounts on my virtual private server so I can delete spam. How do I do this using PuTTy? I can log into my server just fine but I do not know the commands to navigate to my client's email folder. Suggestions?

Re: mailbox locations

Dennis Handly — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:12:06 GMT

What type of server is this? On HP-UX this is /var/mail/user-name.

Re: Putty

Bill Hassell — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:34:43 GMT

You can read the email using elm as in:

elm -f /var/mail/user_name

You'll need to spend time with the elm manual as it is not a windows application.

Re: mailbox locations

Dennis Handly — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:23:03 GMT

And you can use mailx(1) to access your own mailbox.

And "mailx -f /var/mail/user-name".

There is a mailx(1) man page with simple commands to read and delete.