[X-Unix] mail -- removing messages

[Ed Rosack]

On Aug 12, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Craig Hoffman wrote:

> Hey Folks,
> I open up the terminal and I get a message "You have mail".  Ok, 
> great.  I type "mail"
> and the new messages show up.  The messages are from a search engine 
> app I use.  There nothing important and I would like to delete them.   
> I typed "?" for help and it said the use the "d" flag.  I am doing 
> something wrong because they are not being deleted. Can someone show 
> me the proper syntax on how to delete them?
>
At the mail prompt, just type "d 1" to delete message 1, "d 1-5" to 
delete messages 1 through 5, etc.  Then quit mail by entering "q" .

Don't enter the quotes around the commands.
Ed