STAERKE@DS0MPI11.BITNET (Heinz-Joachim Staerke) (02/12/90)
On Mon, 12 Feb 90 13:53:35 IST Zvika Bar-Deroma said: >I just "encountered" a (new - as far as I can tell) problem with mail. >When I issue MAIL and I have an UNREAD NOTEBOOK on another minidisk than >the A-disk, a new unread notebook is created on the a-disk. Is it a bug, >or did I miss something ? > That is correct ! The MAILUSER XEDIT controls the configuration of your MAIL/MAILBOOK system. The default is UNREAD NOTEBOOK A. You may specify any other name by inserting SETMAIL UNREAD filename in the MAILUSER XEDIT. See HELP MAIL PROFILE. Does that help ? Regards Heinz-Joachim Staerke
AER7101@TECHNION.BITNET (Zvika Bar-Deroma) (02/12/90)
On Mon, 12 Feb 90 13:57:08 MEZ Heinz-Joachim Staerke said: >On Mon, 12 Feb 90 13:53:35 IST Zvika Bar-Deroma said: >>I just "encountered" a (new - as far as I can tell) problem with mail. >>When I issue MAIL and I have an UNREAD NOTEBOOK on another minidisk than >>the A-disk, a new unread notebook is created on the a-disk. Is it a bug, >>or did I miss something ? >> >That is correct ! The MAILUSER XEDIT controls the configuration of your >MAIL/MAILBOOK system. The default is UNREAD NOTEBOOK A. You may specify any >other name by inserting SETMAIL UNREAD filename in the MAILUSER XEDIT. >See HELP MAIL PROFILE. > >Does that help ? Regards Heinz-Joachim Staerke It sure does, thanks. I just set in my MAILUSER XEDIT: 'GLOBALV SELECT MAIL SETL MAIL_OPTION.UNREAD UNREAD NOTEBOOK *' and had the mail loaded to the unread notebook on disk C. /Zvika
SCHAFER@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU (Richard A. Schafer) (02/12/90)
On Mon, 12 Feb 90 13:53:35 IST Zvika Bar-Deroma said: >I just "encountered" a (new - as far as I can tell) problem with mail. >When I issue MAIL and I have an UNREAD NOTEBOOK on another minidisk than >the A-disk, a new unread notebook is created on the a-disk. Is it a bug, >or did I miss something ? It's a bug; for some reason the code to check for an existing notebook and use it instead does not apply to the unread notebook. I'll fix that in the next version Richard