jmleonar@CRDEC.ARPA ("Dr. Joseph M. Leonard") (08/14/86)
This is (yet another?) request for the method to clear whatever flag is
currently hung that informs that I have new mail (when none is present)...
Please answer directly to me, as the net has seen this before (and I SHOULD
have known better!).
Joe Leonard
<jmleonar@crdc.arpa>
Disclaimer: The views of my employer do not conform to my views, or to any
accepted standard of logic that the Greeks thought up anyway...vtcf@NCSC.ARPA (Williams) (08/15/86)
Could you send me a copy of what you get as an answer to this problem? I have the same problem, and haven't been on the net that long. Thanks.
art@MITRE.ARPA (Art McClinton) (08/18/86)
I had previously responded only to Joe, but with a second response on the net will summarize my comments. To remove the "new mail" phantom prompt one needs to get into mail and issue the SELECT/NEW command. If it finds zero mail messages waiting it will correct the pointer stored in the mail database. This is not the only command that will accomplish this. - Arthur T. McClinton Jr., (703) 883-6356 The MITRE Corporation, Mail Stop Z305 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd. McLean, VA 22102
LEICHTER-JERRY@YALE.ARPA (08/19/86)
This is (yet another?) request for the method to clear whatever flag is
currently hung that informs that I have new mail (when none is present)...
Please answer directly to me, as the net has seen this before....
Also:
Subject: Re: Unable to clear "new mail" prompts
From: vtcf@ncsc.ARPA (Williams)
To: info-vax@sri-kl.ARPA, jmleonar@crdec.ARPA
Could you send me a copy of what you get as an answer to this problem?
I have the same problem, and haven't been on the net that long. Thanks.
I'm posting this to INFOVAX because it it SO commonly asked - and the answer
is so simple:
Go into mail. Read your new mail until you have read it all. Then
type READ/NEW again. Any time you do a READ/NEW with no new mail
actually pending, MAIL will reset the count.
-- Jerry
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