Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.arc.nasa.gov!sgi!rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: "mailbox: " does it Do the Right Thing? Message-ID: <111807@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 20 Jun 91 04:21:21 GMT References: <1991Jun13.172559.21771@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: guest@sgi.sgi.com Reply-To: rpw3@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 28 In article srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell%Cohen) writes: +--------------- | 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. +--------------- Try "file %". Does the same thing, but fewer keystrokes. Note: You probably want to "set hold" in your ~/.mailrc, so that held messages are merged with your spool file. Otherwise, when you "file %", Mail will save your "held" messages in "mbox", and only show you new ones. Not convenient... -Rob ----- Rob Warnock, MS-1L/515 rpw3@sgi.com rpw3@pei.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)335-1673 Protocol Engines, Inc. 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94039-7311