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- From: 00mjstum@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Matthew J. Stum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: THE solution (was Re: NEWMAIL COUNT incorrect..)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.091505.13261@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:15:05 GMT
- References: <01GSGEQCU94I94DTLQ@SNYBUFVA.BITNET> <Bzop55.Cqu@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
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- bandy@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Mike Bandy) writes:
- > TARKA10@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (Mark Tarka) writes:
- >
- >>Ehud Gavron had apparently solved a problem with phantom newmail counts.
- >>I never saw the original traffic on the topic. I'm a user here on
- >>campus; during the login, I'm given the message that I have n mail
- >>messages -- there is a residual of four, now five, which do not exist.
- >>If I could get a solution to this problem, I could forward it to the
- >>appropriate desk for action. Thanks.
- >
- > Neither did I, but I remember my old boss' 10 lines of DCL (copy this;
- > mail that; delete other;...) to fix the problem. I innocently asked him
- > why he didn't just do a READ/NEW from within mail. He about went
- > through the ceiling! I hope the portion of the thread I've missed
- > was not a lengthy solution to a trivial problem. However, I don't
- > remember whether the READ/NEW clears the count, or decrements it.
-
- It clears the count to 0... but _ONLY_ if you have no new mail messages.
- If you have real live new mail messages and your count is messed up, typing
- READ/NEW will _not_ correct the count.
-
- Ehud's "definitive" answer to the problem wasn't exactly comprehensive. It
- should read something like:
-
- "Type READ/NEW, reading any new mail that you have, until you get
- the "%MAIL-W-NONEWMAIL, no new messages" message."
-
- Or, if you prefer, the answer from the Mail Utility manual, section 9 (System
- Management and MAIL), page MAIL-15:
-
- "If the number of new (unread) mail messages displayed on your screen is
- inconsistent with the actual number of new messages, enter the READ/NEW
- command when there is no new mail."
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- --
- Matt Stum Gwydion ap Myrddin Ball State University
- 00mjstum@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu Shire of Afonlyn, MK Muncie, IN USA
-