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From: Bart Lateur <bart.lat...@pandora.be>
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Subject: Re: How can a SMTP mail be deleted from a Unix mailbox by a script?
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:56:02 GMT
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Markus Elfring wrote:

>This request's subject is the deletion of messages in the file "mbox".

I think the safest approach would be to go through POP. For Perl, see
the modules Mail::POP3Client and Net::POP3. Search for methods with a
name like "delete" (not necessarily with that case).

-- 
	Bart.