Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 19:55:03 -0600 (CST) From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: (Joerg Wunsch) <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: radha@syl.sj.nec.com, (FreeBSD-current users) <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: /usr/bin/mail in current is giving me fits. Message-ID: <XFMail.961121200352.dkelly@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <199611161050.LAA05963@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On 17:50:14 J Wunsch wrote:
>>As David Kelly wrote:
>
>> PeeCee: {1006} mail
>> Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
>> "/var/mail/dkelly": 3 messages 3 new
>> >N 1 dkelly Fri Nov 15 16:52 12/385 "test1"
>> N 2 dkelly Fri Nov 15 16:52 12/385 "test2"
>> N 3 dkelly Fri Nov 15 16:52 12/385 "test3"
>> & d 2
>> Message 3:
>> >From dkelly Fri Nov 15 16:52:57 1996
>> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 16:52:57 -0600 (CST)
>> From: David Kelly <dkelly>
>
>...strange. I cannot reproduce it, it works as expected for me.
Well, hanging my head in shame, I found it. Operator error. Stupid
simple little thing as ~/.mailrc and /usr/share/skel/dot.mailrc
have this little line that escaped my notice:
set append ask autoprint
"autoprint" was the culprit. Needless to say, autoprint is not
the behaviour I've come to expect of Mail. OTOH, I'll never forget
its meaning now.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
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