Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:08:27 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: susmit sarkar <susmit1976@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deleting mails Message-ID: <414E3B9B.20409@daleco.biz> 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: >Dear Sir/Madam, > >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. > >Regards >Susmit > > Now, you're not really *afraid* of the mails are you? :-) My two cents --- you're using mail at the command line, right? I'd install mutt (/usr/ports/mail/mutt), and use it as your client. IMHO, the best thing I ever did for my CLI mail was to install mutt and alias "mail" to "mutt" in my .cshrc ... HTH, Kevin Kinsey
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