Subject: Emptying mail?

From: Kathrene R Conway <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 08:13:46 -0700

I am using pine with a Unix system.  Even though I delete messages and 
they are later no longer there, the command ls -l shows that the mbox is 
still taking up the same amount of memory.  Why?

Kathrene Conway
[email-masked]

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From: Andrew Le <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 07:46:22 -0800 (PST)

> still taking up the same amount of memory.  Why?

mbox holds your "saved" and "sent" letters, it does not hold
"incoming" letters which you delete. incoming letters are
usually held in /usr/spool/mail/ directory, not in your mbox....

Andrew