So what I would do is stop the MSA/MTA. (Sendmail Postfix whatever.) I
would then save off the mbox file or maildir file depending on how it's
setup up. After saving off that data I would then cat /dev/null > {mbox} or
rm -rf the maildir. Recreate the mbox file or maildir file an restart the
MSA/MTA. You should be fine after that you might also think about
redirecting said e-mail on AIX box to another address. That way you don't
have to run into this issue again.
-mmiller
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:51 AM, French, Derek <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Using Unix AIX 5.1 box, and unfortunately let mail file get too large
> (304megs), and now I can’t get into the Mail program to delete the emails at
> the root directory because it says, “/tmp : No space left on device.” I
> don’t see any other large files/am uncomfortable deleting any other files in
> the /var/tmp folder, so…can I delete the large mail file that is at the path
> /var/spool/mail/root and still be ok, i.e. it will regenerate the
> file when I try and get back into the mail program? Or will it permanently
> delete the Mail program? Thanks for your help. P.S. I have very little Unix
> knowledge.
>
> Derek
>
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