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Re: Sendmail mbox-es save things backwards

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From: John E. Iacoletti/50000
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1989 14:40
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In article <16144@netnews.upenn.edu> barron@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Daniel P. Barron) writes:
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> 
>Hi.
>
>I've got an RT running AIX 2.2.1 and Sendmail.  If you're reading mail
>and you quit with q command, read messages get appended to the *beginning*
>of your mbox folder, rather than at the end.  I have users complaining
>about this, but I'm not sure how to fix it.  Has anyone else experienced/
>fixed this?

If you put the command "set append" in your .mailrc file, new mail will
be added to the end of the mailbox (I prefer it that way too).

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