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Article #1051Re: VMS MAIL - Why Does DELETE/ALL Delete the Folder Too?
From: John Manning
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:40
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:40
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In article <1992Aug13.135132.1@lib.haifa.ac.il>, jody@lib.haifa.ac.il (Yosef Branse) writes... >I use VMS MAIL on a VAX 6320. > >I organize my incoming mail into folders. Every so often I do some >housecleaning, in the course of which I use the command > > DELETE/ALL > >to erase the current contents of specific folders. >This operation also deletes the FOLDER, even though I'd like to retain it The DELETE/ALL command doesn't really delete the folder. It is just a property of VMS Mail that an empty folder cannot exist. Folders only exist as long as they contain messages. Delete all the messages and the folder goes away. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | John Manning | Opinions expressed are my own. | | j_manning@csc32.enet.dec.com | I do not represent Digital Equip. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.os.vms Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!csc32.enet.dec.com!j_manning From: j_manning@csc32.enet.dec.com (John Manning) Subject: Re: VMS MAIL - Why Does DELETE/ALL Delete the Folder Too? Message-ID: <1992Aug13.134306.27543@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> Sender: usenet@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com (USENET News System) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation References: <1992Aug13.135132.1@lib.haifa.ac.il> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:40:41 GMT Lines: 23