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augusto cossa
Frequent Advisor

Warning Message

Hi,

This morning I issued the command mail and the console displayed the bellow message:

Warning: Too many letters, overflowing letters concatenated.

PLS could help me on that?

Regards,
A cossa
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Steven Sim Kok Leong
Honored Contributor

Re: Warning Message

Hi,

Your mail in your spool file /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME is too large. If you still want to keep your mails, split this file into a few smaller files. If you just want the mail command to execute without this error message. Move your /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME to another directory and recreate the file /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME (via touch) with the correct ownership (via chown) and permissions (via chmod).

Regards.

Steven.
Sajith V Mannadiar
Frequent Advisor

Re: Warning Message

Hi,

Most of the mails in 'root' mailbox will be some system messages or o/p of a cron job.

If you are not interested in those mails, you can go to /var/mail directory and nullify the file root.

To null,give'cat /dev/null > /var/mail/root'

or if these mails are in a different login ID you can again nullify those with a similar command.

cat /dev/null > /var/mail/$LOGNAME

Cheers
Sajith