Stop qmail first or you risk deleting valid mail ...
(or do a mv cur cur.del; mkdir cur) .
Then do a rm -rf cur.del
Matt Soffen
Web Intranet Developer
http://www.iso-ne.com/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabriel Ambuehl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 1:24 PM
> To: System Administrator
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Messages don't get deleted
>
> Hello System,
> > can anybody help me delete around 25000 messages from Maildir/cur ,
> please
> > also when rm -f * comamned is ececuted it says /bin/rm Arguments list
> too
> > long.
>
> What stops you from using, say
> rm 91*
> rm 92*
> rm 93*
> and so on? That should help (I'm not sure about the naming, is it
> simply done by the number of seconds since the epoque? If yes, you'll
> most likely have to use something like 9XX1* 9XX2). Oh, what about
> $ cd..
> $ rm -rf cur
> $ mkdir cur
> ?
>
