Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!itcyyz!xrtll!silver
From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Subject: Re: /usr/spool/mail filter/editor?
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Yeah, right.
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 91 20:09:57 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jan19.200957.7528@xrtll.uucp>
References: <1991Jan16.185727.15843@en.ecn.purdue.edu>

In comp.unix.shell, nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) typed:
$I am interested in a shell script that will, upon execution, view
$the contents of the /usr/spool/mail/lname file and remove any mail
$from a certain user or list of users.  I'm sure it has been done
$many times, but I don't have the skills yet to write it on my own.

   Depending on your mailer, the easiest way to do this may well be
simply to run mail -u lname with the following redirected to its input:

d whoever-is-to-be-deleted
q

   The dumb mailer that comes with Xenix, for example, allows you to
delete messages from a person as above.  Heck, if you wanted to, you
could even put it into a here document and make about a four-line shell
script out of it.
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