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Linux Mail in Terminal

When logging into the terminal and you see the message '"You have mail'mail" youmessage, haveand somewant options:

to
    Viewdelete the listmail, ofI mail:use
      this:
      View The Mail
      cat /var/spool/mail/rootmail
      Delete The Mail

      (changeChange root to the username you wannawant check)

      to delete mail Deletefor) the mail: 
        > /var/mail/root
        (this
        Common willUsernames
        delete

        These all messages for root - leaveare the greater than symbol)

        Leave the > symbol when executing the delete command! You are in effect redirecting the output of nothing to the file, which will truncate it

        Commontwo usernames that I will havesee mail:mail for, usually:

        • root
        • www-data
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