I am trying to use Mail::Box to view the mail in my mbox type mailbox, Parse it, then remove the read mail. Cant figure out how to remove it and could use some help. The script warns me that: WARNING: Changes not written to read-only folder /var/spool/mail/jlahowet. and I'm running as root. Is there another way? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Mail::Box::Manager;

my $mailspool = "/var/spool/mail/jlahowet";
my $received = "/home/jlahowet/THOR/HAS/messages";

my $mgr = Mail::Box::Manager->new;
my $folder = $mgr->open(folder => $mailspool);

my $type = $folder->type;
print "$type\n";

my $name = $folder->name;
print "$name\n";

my $emails = $folder->messages;
print "$emails\n";

foreach my $message ($folder->messages) {
    print $message->get('Subject') || '<no subject>', "\n";
    $message->delete;
}

$folder->close;
 
exit;

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UPDATE: Replacing the open command with my $folder = $mgr->open(folder => $mailspool, access => 'rw'); give write access the the folder and then you can delete it... but I can only do it as root. I "ls" the mail folder and got: -rw-------  1 jlahowet mail    3523 May 27 00:48 jlahowet. If I read this right, I own the file so I'm not sure why I have to be root to delete it.

In reply to Mail::Box-deleting messages by deadpickle

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