Subject: Re: Deleting all mails with one command

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 2 Dec 1995 15:14:18 -0800

[email-masked] (Jesse Aaron Safir) writes:
>> >Is there a way to delete all messages at one time?
>> 
>> rm -rf $MAIL

If it's an incoming folder, i.e., receives messages via something 
like procmail, then you should not delete it this
way in case it is receiving a msg at the moment that you delete it.
You should use a method that uses file locking, e.g., what Jesse
describes below.

>Or, if you only want to delete all messages in the current folder, enable 
>the aggregate command set and hit ";", then "a".  All messages in the 
>current folder should be selected, so hit "a" then "d" and "x" and 
>they're gone...

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From: [email-masked] (Pierre Frenkiel)
Date: 4 Dec 1995 07:57:35 GMT

: >Or, if you only want to delete all messages in the current folder, enable 
: >the aggregate command set and hit ";", then "a".  All messages in the 
: >current folder should be selected, so hit "a" then "d" and "x" and 
: >they're gone...

 it seems that the "D" command, when viewing folder, does the job in a way
 which requires less typing ( including the "y" answer when you want to
 create the folder again)