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 -------