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From: lien@osu-eddie.UUCP
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Subject: Withdrawing mail
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Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 21:48:28 EST
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From: Yao-Nan Lien <lien>


This sounds crazy. But why not for a discussion?

1. Store each message in receivers /usr/spool/mail/xxx
   as a file with necessary information such that it can be 
   deleted by authorized user.

2. Store each message in the sender's /usr/spool/mail/xxxx as a
   file and put a signal in receiver's mailbox. The message is
   delivered when the receiver read it.

For local E-mail, I don't see any techinical  difficulty to implement.

(Let's assume there is no compatibility problem with existing software.)


Yao-Nan Lien