How to Delete Root Mails (Mailbox) File in Linux

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Ravi Saive
Feb 3, 2018

Usually, on a Linux mail server, over the time the size of /var/spool/mail/root file can increase considerably do to various programs, services and daemons that are configured by default to send notifications to root account mailbox.

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Ravi Saive

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