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In article <1992Sep5.062859.14535@terminator.cc.umich.edu> danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts) writes:
>In article <1992Aug31.183156.1684@nntp.uoregon.edu>  
>cdelay@inferno.uoregon.edu (Christian De Lay) writes:
>> Can anyone tell me if there's a way to keep the console mail  
>program from  
>> grabbing mail into the user's local directory from /usr/spool/mail?   
>It's  
>> getting annoying when users log in on console but then can't read  
>mail from  
>> remote since the mail file has been moved.
>
>I know of no way to stop NeXTMail from grabbing the mail into its own  
>directories, however if you do a 
> mail -f ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox
>you can get at your next mail mbox.  Be careful deleting messages  
>though; nextmail can get confused if you do things behind its back.   
>If it does get confused, try deleting the "table_of_contents" file  
>from the Active.mbox directory.  
>
>This method of course works for other mailboxes you may have defined.
>--
>dan pritts                     computer systems consultant


Yes actually you can do it.  In the Preferences for Mail.app, select the 
'Manual' mail retrieval option.  This will allow you to start up Mail.app
without having it automatically transfer your mail from /usr/spool/mail
until you choose to do so (i.e. until you select 'New Mail' from the 
Utilities option).  If you never select 'New Mail', your mail can always
be read from the console, otherwise you can always get back to it via
Dan Pritts' suggestion (mail -f ...) above.

Kharim



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     Kharim M. Hogan             Systems Administrator 
     hogan@music.mcgill.ca       Faculty of Music, McGill University
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