Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: <snip> Thank you guys!! I got rid of it.I tried 2 webmailer accounts I have, Yahoo! said that the server did not support LAST, and care2 that my mailbox was not big enough.
So next I installed fetchmail and fetchmailconf, through my super-duper 7 woody CD's all loopmounted and configured fetchmail.
Then I did "fetchmail -a -l 1 -F" and voilá... 1.8 meg file gone. Hugo.