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From: patricky@usage.unsw.oz (Patrick Young)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: HOW TO RESET ERRANT NEW MAIL COUNTS
Message-ID: <133@usage.unsw.oz>
Date: 29 Mar 88 05:48:07 GMT
References: <8803211456.AA00341@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Computing Services Dept, UNSW, Australia
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Summary: Another way to reset new mail counts



	Another way to reset erroneous new mail count messages is to
post yourself a number of dummy mail messages - this number should
be the same as indicated by the message. Then exit mail and make a copy
of mail.mai, say mail.new. Then get back into mail, delete all your dummy
messages. Exit mail, delete mail.mai, and rename mail.new to mail.mai
then go back into mail again and delete all the dummy messages again.
This should reset your new mail count to zero. and it requires no
special privs to do it.