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The following concerns the behavior of mail on the NeXT when reading 
mail through the Terminal application or, in particular, from a remote 
terminal. Thus this is not about NeXTmail (the App). We have noticed 
two types of behavior:

1) When you login and type "mail" at the prompt, you see your mail which 
is read from the file /usr/spool/mail/username. You read your mail and 
quit (q). Your mail (read and unread) is stored in /usr/spool/mail/username 
(unless you *explicitly* save it.)

2) Again you login and type "mail" at the prompt. Your mail is read in 
from the file /usr/spool/mail/username and you read your mail. This time 
when you quit (q), all mail that is read is moved to ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox
/mbox (or ~/mbox or another designated folder) and the unread mail is 
retained in /usr/spool/mail/username.

According to the man page for mail, (2) is the expected behavior. However, 
(1) is the behavior we are now seeing. One user claims it used to work like 
(2), but that recently (also about the time I installed popper on the NeXT) 
that it changed to (1). I checked three other (non-NeXT) Unix machines 
and two behaved like (1) and one like (2) [hmmmm..sorry about that.] 
So my questions are:

a) What is the proper behavior and/or what parameters need to be set 
to get it one way or the other?

b) Does popper have anything to do with this behavior?

 Thanks in advance,

Charlie



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