Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp
From: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Undesirable Mail
Summary: Deleting messages with .mailrc lines
Message-ID: <187@v7fs1.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 23:13:44 GMT
References: <9379@ut-emx.UUCP> <810030@hpsemc.HP.COM> <9541@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Organization: Video7, Cupertino, CA
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In article <9541@ut-emx.UUCP> mariou@ut-emx.UUCP (Mariou Barr) writes:
[ Summary of messages on how to delete mail from selected users.
  One of the messages contains an erroneous statement.]

>If the only thing you can modify is your .mailrc, then you definitely
>lose - /usr/ucb/Mail (or mailx) has no way to do this.

This isn't true.  Here are the relevant lines from my .mailrc file, on
a Sun.  The same thing has worked for me under mailx on SysV.

	if r
	s uucp uucp-trash
	d uucp
	endif

The "if r" around it just prevents me from getting a "You can't save
messages when in send mode" diagnostic when I am trying to send mail.

This works like a charm for me.  I kept getting flooded with worthless
nattering from uucp until I did this.  Now I just glance at uucp-trash
from time to time to see if uucp had anything useful to say to me
for a change.
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