Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu!srp From: srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell%Cohen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: "mailbox: " does it Do the Right Thing? Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 91 16:17:06 GMT References: <1991Jun13.172559.21771@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: daemon@cgl.ucsf.edu Lines: 17 shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes: >I have one other mail question that was raised some time ago, but I forget >the answer. If new mail arrives while I am reading mail (from Mail [BSD]), >can I bring it into the existing session? Suns have an option to do >this, but I don't see an option for this on the Iris man page. I think >someone once mailed me a workaround, but I've forgotten it. At the '&' say: "folder /usr/mail/" and Mail will reread your spool file. - Scott -- Scott Presnell +1 (415) 476-9890 Pharm. Chem., S-926 Internet: srp@cgl.ucsf.edu University of California UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!srp San Francisco, CA. 94143-0446 Bitnet: srp@ucsfcgl.bitnet