Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:57:00 -0700 (PDT) From: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail box question Message-ID: <20020416015700.61615.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020415190040.GI6333@hades.hell.gr>
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Dear Giorgos Keramidas
After I tried using cat, I couldn't use pine to read
all mails
Just read ann's mail
How do I fix it?
Thank you
--- Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
wrote:
> On 2002-04-15 08:03, ann kok wrote:
> > I have two mails (ann and angel) under
> /var/spool/mail
> > I want to group in one 'ann' all mails are in
> ann's
> > mailbox
> > Can I use this command cat angel >> ann?
>
> Yes, you can. UNIX mbox format is a plain text file
> with all the
> messages concatenated together, one after the other.
> What you did is
> not a nice idea though for other reasons. You
> should first make sure
> that nobody tries to deliver mail to any of the two
> mailboxes, since
> Sendmail might try to deliver mail while the cat
> command is still
> running and will make a mess of the destination
> mailbox.
>
> > But I couldn't read angel's mail after doing it
> from
> > ann's mail box
>
> How did you try to read the mailbox? What errors
> did you get?
>
> Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD
> Documentation Project
> keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}
http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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