Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:44:02 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mail(1) save command does not work as in the man page Message-ID: <201207251544.q6PFi23j012353@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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According to the man mail(1):
save (s) Takes a message list and a filename and appends each message
in turn to the end of the file. The filename in quotes, followed
by the line count and character count is echoed on the user's
terminal.
However, it seems the mail is copied, but not
deleted on exit:
$ mail -f mbox
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
"mbox": 1 message
> 1 mexas@bristol.ac.uk Wed Jul 25 16:36 46/2045 "kuku"
& s 1 somefile
"somefile" [New file]
& h
>* 1 mexas@bristol.ac.uk Wed Jul 25 16:36 46/2045 "kuku"
& q
$ mail -f somefile
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
"somefile": 1 message
> 1 mexas@bristol.ac.uk Wed Jul 25 16:36 46/2045 "kuku"
& q
So the mail was copied to <somefile> file, as expected.
However, it's still in mbox file too:
$ mail -f mbox
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
"mbox": 1 message
> 1 mexas@bristol.ac.uk Wed Jul 25 16:36 46/2045 "kuku"
& q
$
This shouldn't happen. According to the man page
the expected behaviour is that message 1 should
be deleted from mbox on quit.
Any comments?
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