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2 total messages Started by Rob Duin Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:25

#1928

Author: Rob Duin
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:25

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Hello everbody,

The Messages program has some known options as
-s for ~/sendmessageinit
-m for only reading mail
-w for separate windows for each region

I wonder if there is also an option that prevents "messages" from accessing the /var/spool/mail directory at startup time. I just want to read the bulletin boards. Does anybody know?

Yes, I can set "unset hold" in my ".mailrc", but that file can also be used by other programs, so that is not a very good solution.

I am asking this, because at our site some people use messages and some want to use Eudora at their Mac's. We can not tell everyone to use the AMS system.

Hope you can help.

Rob Duin

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Re: Messages options

#1933

Author: "Douglas F. DeJulio"
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:15

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> I wonder if there is also an option that prevents "messages" from
> accessing the /var/spool/mail directory at startup time. I just want to
> read the bulletin boards. Does anybody know?

If you set the PersonalMailCollectionCommand: preference to /bin/true,
you should get the result you want.
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj+@cmu.edu

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