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From: frank@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: /usr/ucb/mail Question?
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.173710.868@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 7 Aug 90 16:37:10 GMT
References: <22100010@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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In article <22100010@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, kbesrl@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> 
> I have a problem with /usr/ucb/mail.  When I save a message in a folder,
> it never gets deleted from the original folder.  I guess there is a flag
> that can be set to avoid this problem, but it is not documented in the
> man pages.  Another problem is that when I delete a message, the next
> return skips a message.  I am wondering where I can get an on-line
> documentation for /usr/ucb/mail.
> 
> Thanks.
> -- sudhakar (sudha@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu)


The flag you are looking for is: hold. Check your /usr/lib/Mail.rc (system wide)
and .mailrc (for each user) files for this flag. It *should* be documented in 
the man pages (it is on our system uws3.1)! If you are working with a DEC-VAX
you should have the entire manual pages on the distribution tape.

Robert (Frank@urz.unibas.ch)