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From: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: UUPC: How to disable the automatic archiving of outbound mail
Summary: Put 'Forward to {BitBucket}' in your outbound mail archive file.
Keywords: UUPC mail PCMAIL automatic archive disable
Message-ID: <1669@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 07:47:56 GMT
Reply-To: skl@sklpc.vnet.van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
Organization: UUPC Development Group, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Question:  The mail command in UUPC automatically files all outgoing
mail I sent into a mailbox file (the name of this file varies depending
on which micro you are on), how do I disable this so that none of my
outbound messages are ever archived?

Answer:  Replace the content of that archive file with the text
"Forward to {BitBucket}" and the copy of the outbound mail that is
supposed to be archived will now get re-routed to the bit-bucket.
Note that cases *is* sensitive here and there must be *nothing*,
not even a '\n', after the string.

What you put in place of the "{BitBucket}" string above depends on
which micro you are using.  On an IBM-PC/MS-DOS system, the name of
the infinite-waste-basket-device is "NUL".  On an UNIX system, it
would be "/dev/null".

The name and location of your outbound mail archive file also varies
depending on the type of micro you use.  On IBM-PC/MS-DOS and the
Atari-ST, the pathname of that file is "$HOME\Mail\mailsent", where
$HOME is the name of your home directory, specified in the environment
variable HOME.  On the Macintosh and the Amiga, this pathname is
"$HOME/Mail/mail.sent".

...Sam
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