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2 total messages Started by Rob Duin Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:33

#1929

Author: Rob Duin
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:33

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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

#1930

Author: Bob Dew
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:21

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You could try setting "MailboxFile:/dev/null" in your .preferences file.
 This should work, provided "MAIL" is left undefined in your envrionment.


-Bob

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