Deleting mail from a specific user

[Leslie Chaim]

Before I start to write some regex sniffing perl...

Is there a standard to delete mail from /var/mail/...
from a specific user.

The from command has the -s option which lists mail from a specific user.

I am looking to delete mail from a specific user.

Here is what I have:
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$ from | wc -l
328
$ from -s ops | wc -l
173
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I would like to delete all mail from ops.

[Pete Randall]

If you're deleting it all, just rm /var/mail/ops or cat /dev/null > /var/mail/ops.

Pete

[Pete Randall]

Oops, I missed the "from" part. Working . . .

Pete

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

hi,

Use :

mailx <<+++
delete ops
+++

regards,

Jean-Louis.

[Justo Exposito]

Hi Jean,

Good Answer!!

Do you know how to delete messages from a user between dates?

Regards,

Justo.

[Darrell Allen]

Hi Leslie,

I thought Jean-Louis's reply was very good. To expand on it for a specified receipent:

mailx -f /var/mail/username <<+++
delete ops
+++

Darrell