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From: cook@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Richard Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Getting rid of phantom NEW MAIL msgs upon login...
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Date: 20 May 88 23:30:22 GMT
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This question pops up on a regular basis (anyone for an `Answers to
Questions Frequently Asked on comp.os.vms' monthly column??), but part
of the answer usually gets left out of responses. READ/NEW when there is
no new is essentially the correct answer, but MAIL.MAI must exist for
this to work...and this is something RingTFM doesn't tell you. If you
have accidentally (or intentionally) deleted MAIL.MAI then you can send
yourself a dummy message and READ/NEW (twice!) to synchronize things.

Richard L. Cook                   443-4809 (H) or 492-2148 (W)

Data Analysis Center, Box 486     cook@tramp.Colorado.EDU
University of Colorado            cook@Colorado.BITNET
Boulder, CO 80309-0486            CUBLDR::COOK_R on CU's DECNET