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From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To: (Joerg Wunsch) <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject: Re: /usr/bin/mail in current is giving me fits.
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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
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.