oberman@LLL-ICDC.ARPA ("Oberman, Kevin") (08/18/86)
>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!). The command READ/NEW should be executed once for each nonexistant `new message'. Each time there will be a warning that there are no new messages. The message count is stored in SYS$SYSTEM:VMSMAIL.DAT. Should you read news mail from another node on a hetrogenous cluster (or maybe even a network), the count will get off. Another way this happens is when a user disk is lost and restored from BACKUP. Any mail received since the BACKUP will be added to the count, but will be absent from the restored MAIL file. And don't worry about getting a negative count. READ/NEW won't decrement the count past zero. R. Kevin Oberman LLNL ARPA: oberman@icdc ------