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
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