skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) (02/09/88)
Question: The mail command in UUPC automatically files all outgoing mail I sent into a mailbox file (the name of this file varies depending on which micro you are on), how do I disable this so that none of my outbound messages are ever archived? Answer: Replace the content of that archive file with the text "Forward to {BitBucket}" and the copy of the outbound mail that is supposed to be archived will now get re-routed to the bit-bucket. Note that cases *is* sensitive here and there must be *nothing*, not even a '\n', after the string. What you put in place of the "{BitBucket}" string above depends on which micro you are using. On an IBM-PC/MS-DOS system, the name of the infinite-waste-basket-device is "NUL". On an UNIX system, it would be "/dev/null". The name and location of your outbound mail archive file also varies depending on the type of micro you use. On IBM-PC/MS-DOS and the Atari-ST, the pathname of that file is "$HOME\Mail\mailsent", where $HOME is the name of your home directory, specified in the environment variable HOME. On the Macintosh and the Amiga, this pathname is "$HOME/Mail/mail.sent". ...Sam -- Samuel Lam <Samuel.Lam@van-bc.UUCP> or {ihnp4!alberta,watmath,uw-beaver}!ubc-vision!van-bc!skl