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From: mitch@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Getting rid of phantom NEW MAIL msgs upon login...
Message-ID: <4872@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 20 May 88 15:32:14 GMT
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Reply-To: mitch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth)
Organization: Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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>> [the old new mail count > actual new messages problem]

>This problem was described in a PAGESWAPPER a couple of years back.
>I seem to recall (I haven't checked) that the solution was to go into MAIL
>and type READ/NEW.

Better than that, it's in the VAX/VMS Mail Utility Reference Manual.
From page MAIL-15 of the V4.0 manual:

	If the number of new (unread) mail messages displayed on your
	screen is inconsistent with the actual number of new messages,
	enter the READ/NEW command when there is no new mail.


-Mitch Collinsworth
 mitch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu