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From: eddc@opus.lerc.nasa.gov (Dave Carek)
Subject: Re: "mailbox: "  does it Do the Right Thing?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.132114.5224@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center [Cleveland]
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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 13:21:14 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.172559.21771@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu writes:
>I love mailbox, which is new with the 3.3 release I just installed on my
>4d25tg.  However, it has one undesirable behavior that I have noticed:
>it seems to trap all interrupts.  Though this is useful in some places,
>it disallows aborting a reply or message.  That is, if I run Mail from
>a wsh, then change my mind about sending it, I can hit ^C twice, and it
>cancels the message.  Since the mail window opened by mailbox traps
>interrupts, however, I can't do this.  The only way to abort the reply
>is to close the window, which may not do what you want, since you might
>want to delete things that you've read, or something like that, before you
>quit.
>

Since your using Mail you can use "~q".  The following is an entry from the 
Mail man page.

     ~q          Abort the message being sent, copying the message to
                 ``dead.letter'' in your home directory if save is set.

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