When I first started in the industry my colleagues told me that I should be using the read-mail program.  It has a mode that allows you to use regexps to read your mail really fast.  I was told that the normal way to run read-mail with the &quot;really fast&quot; mode was:<p>rm -rf *<p>Disclaimer: For the Unix impaired, this is an &quot;expert only&quot; utility. I am not responsible for the loss of all the files in your home directory should you attempt to use it.