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From: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: MAIL
Message-ID: <3215@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 88 18:33:16 GMT
References: <492@a.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Summary: simple fix


In article <492@a.UUCP> jkw@a.UUCP (Jay Wooten) writes:
>I have a problem with VMS MAIL -- I get a message that I have one new mail
>message even though I do not.  I seem to remember that a solution to this
>problem was posted some time ago.  Could someone please send me the info.
>Thanks in advance.
>	   Jay Wooten  Los Alamos National Lab  ARPA: jkw@lanl.gov

I had this problem recently, and tried a number of things before DEC support
gave me a very simple fix.  Presumably you logon, get a "new mail" message,
enter MAIL, get another "new mail" message, hit the return key and get
a "no next message"?  Enter "read/new", and you'll get "no next message."  Then
read your *last* message in your default folder, and then hit the return key
again.  This will convince mail that there is indeed no new message.

Sorry to post to the entire network, but my reply is brain-dead.

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michael j zehr
"My opinions are my own ... as is my spelling."