possible to mark all mail as read using one line terminal?

garage_greg

I am not trying to remove all the mails. I googled for mark all mail as read, actually got posts saying how to delete them instead. I found out using echo p | mail will output first of unread then mark it read, but if I do this, I have to loop through them. I figured for all read mails, they will be appended to a file named mbox What I am trying to do is...I want to create a bash file which is then used for crontab that let's say, at the end of...

Originally asked by Dora on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I was able to do it as follows: Type mail , it tells me how many unread messages I have. Let's say, 31. Type t 1-31 , it displays all messages from 1 to 31 in a big concatenated sheet ( turned out that t * achieves the same result, thanks to Jaime Hablutzel ) Type q to quit view mode, type q again to quit mail That's it! mail says all 31 messages saved in your mbox file, and next time you enter it, it will say "no mail for you".

Full answer by Vlad Nikiforov: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/1234967 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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