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Subject: [ale] clearing out root's mail
From: william at fragakis.com (William Fragakis)
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:28:40 -0500
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I'm running Centos 5.4. Root's mail file has grown to a cumbersome size.
I'd like to clear it out but if I follow the advice I've been able to
googe and dum/delete/create new  the file (/var/spool/mail/root),
sendmail rebuilds it to the original size.  Is there a step I'm missing?

thanks,
William

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