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How to delete Delete a range of mails on Solaris/Linuxemail messages using the 'mail' command?

I have someabout 1k+ mails in an inbox (old cronjob stdout), how to. How do I delete them in bulk?

I'm on Solaris 8 and I have only mail available, no pine or mutt or similar "UI"-based client.

Inline help and man page only give "d #" to delete a specific mail. I've tried for example d 1 - 100 but notno luck. And I don't feel like doing d 1000 times...

Any ideas how to clean up this inbox? I'd actually like to purge all mails older than x days.

How to delete a range of mails on Solaris/Linux using the 'mail' command?

I have some 1k+ mails in an inbox (old cronjob stdout), how to delete them in bulk?

I'm on Solaris 8 and I have only mail available, no pine or mutt or similar "UI"-based client.

Inline help and man page only give "d #" to delete a specific mail. I've tried for example d 1 - 100 but not luck. And I don't feel like doing d 1000 times...

Any ideas how to clean up this inbox? I'd actually like to purge all mails older than x days.

Delete a range of email messages using the 'mail' command

I have about 1k+ mails in an inbox (old cronjob stdout). How do I delete them in bulk?

I'm on Solaris 8 and I have only mail available, no pine or mutt or similar "UI"-based client.

Inline help and man page only give d # to delete a specific mail. I've tried for example d 1 - 100 but no luck. And I don't feel like doing d 1000 times.

Any ideas how to clean up this inbox? I'd actually like to purge all mails older than x days.