/var/mail/admin ?! Size

Hi everyone,

i had a look at my server´s mail dir. There is a file called admin. this file size is (currently )12 mb.

how can i change that?

Cheers
PM

 

You can either fetch the mails from that account regularly with an email client, or if you don't want to receive emails for admin at all, you can use a .forward file or a procmail recipe in admin's home dir to forward the mails to /dev/null.

If you only want to delete the mails that are currently in /var/mail/admin, you can do it like this:

Code:

cat /dev/null > /var/mail/admin

 

Hi Falko,

thanks for your fast reply. I think the best would be a procmail recipe. but where is the admin`s home dir and how should that procmail file look like?

Cheers
PM

 

First, you create a file .forward in the user's homedir with the following content:

Code:

"|/path/to/procmail -f-"

Then chown it to the username and chmod 600 it. Then create the file .procmailrc in the same directory (owner and group root, chmod 644) with the following content:

Code:

:0:
/dev/null

Also have a look at

Code:

man procmailex

and here: http://www.howtoforge.com/procmail_tips_recipes