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From: kseshadr@quasar.intel.com (Kishore Seshadri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Programmatic Mail reader
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Date: 26 Jul 90 21:06:05 GMT
References: <1990Jul26.155303.15563@mips2.cr.bull.com>
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In-reply-to: peters@mips2.cr.bull.com (Dan Peters)

In article <1990Jul26.155303.15563@mips2.cr.bull.com>, peters@mips2 (Dan Peters) writes:
>
>	This is my first post to this newsgroup, I hope it is appropriate.
>What is the easiest way to programmaticly do the following:
>
>	read mail,
>	dump it to a file (i.e. log)
>	delete the messages read (so they arn't logged again),
>	quit mail
>
>
>I have tried to programmaticly read mail with MAILX on a Hewlett Packard
>machine running HP-UX (BSD 4.3 based i believe) with the following .mailrc

I know nothing whatsoever about HP/UX but using Berkeley mail you can
direct your mail to a file using the .forward file mechanism. If this works
on your system it may be a viable solution.

Kishore Seshadri

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