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I have CentOS Linux acting as a router for our small community-based college. I see logwatch and other cron job generating emails for the root account. How do I delete those emails? I don’t want to disable email facility but just wanted to get rid of all root emails. How do I delete root user mails (mailbox) file in Linux or Unix like system?