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From: GERLAND@UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU ("Jim Gerland ", Postmaster)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Re: HOW TO RESET ERRANT NEW MAIL COUNTS
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Date: 12 Apr 88 15:01:00 GMT
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>From: Patrick Young
> <munnari!otc!metro!basser!elecvax!usage!patricky@uunet.uu.NET>
> 
>    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.

Why go to all this trouble when this works:

For n=1 to erroneous-mail-count
   MAIL> READ /NEW
Next n

Jim Gerland  (User Services Postmaster)
University Computing Services
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY   14260      (716) 636-3557