Linux Mail in Terminal

When logging into the terminal and you see the "You have mail" message, and want to delete the mail, I use this:

View The Mail

cat /var/spool/mail

Delete The Mail

(Change root to the username you want to delete mail for)

> /var/mail/root

Common Usernames

These are the two usernames that I will see mail for, usually:

• root
• www-data