Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:07:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> To: "susmit sarkar" <susmit1976@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deleting mails Message-ID: <2041.66.243.145.38.1095624431.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <20040919133714.63458.qmail@web41206.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040919133714.63458.qmail@web41206.mail.yahoo.com>
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susmit sarkar wrote: > I know that the question I am asking might sound very stupid. But it has > me really perplexed. It relates to Unix mail. I use the d command to > delete mails. Like > d <message_number> > or > d <message-list> > But sometimes I find that the mails get deleted and sometimes not. I want > the mails that I delete to be deleted sure shot. I have tried exiting > using q but still the mails are there when I check back later. We have a > BSD system. Please advise me how I can delete mail that I want deleted > without the fear of it reappearing again when I log in and check the next > time. After you hit 'q' to quit, do you sometimes see an error message about a segfault? Because if you do, then that's the times when mail didn't delete anything. I've seen this under RedHat 8 a lot, and pretty much only delete a few messages at a time. It seems to happen "more" if I page back-and-forth in the header list, deleting more or less sporadically, then if I delete the first few messages and then quit. I pretty much wouldn't use 'mail' to read any large bulk mailboxes -- These are just cronjob outputs on a couple machines that can no longer send email, thanks to the folks who decided that one way to cut down on spam was to stop taking email unless reverse-DNS matched up. Gee, thanks. Now I get to log into boxes all the time to check my cron jobs. :-( -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm
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