Topic: cannot delete email and SME not performing right

[Indira]

Hi.
I've been having some problems with SME 5.01
I want to upgrade but nothing is working fine right now, and I don't want to loose everything.
The main issue, I think, is that I had a superuser, which would receive everyone's email and store it until it was requested to forward it someone else.
I forgot this was working, and some months have passed. Now superuser has tons of emails, and they cannot be deleted anyway.
I tried with outlook, IMP, and also with midnight commander, going to users/superuser but it has been trying to open the new mail folder for more than an hour, and it doesn't seem to work.
also tried to delete the folder without opening, etc.
Midnight commander is stuck trying to open "new", and Outlook won't download.
Meanwhile, server manager times out, and the server is performing very slow.
Is there a way to delete all the email, stop MC and be happy?
thanks a lot
Indira

[Ray Mitchell]

Try setting up an IMAP mail client (eg Outlook Express or whatever), then you will probably be able to open and read the tons of mail. Just had a similar issue and it worked OK.

Ray

[Steven]

If you just want to delete it, go to
/home/s-smith/files/users/USERNAME/Maildir/new   and type rm * and press y to everything

Steven

[Jeff Martin]

you might want to use rm -f *  if there are a lot of files otherwise you could be there all day typing y

Jeff