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[sylvia]

Suddenly in my Mail Box at Raq550 (admin) contain thousands of SPAM emails.... (from Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@..), how to delete this spam emails quickly?

[sehe]

login to box as admin (shell access)
type "mail" mail client will open
then type like "d 1-1000" will delete first 1000 emails in it
or go to /var/spool/mail, there should be a file called "admin"
delete it and recreate one with same permissions but empty with "touch admin" and "chmod 600 admin"

but first alternative is better