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New Mail won't die!

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From: Greg Mendizabal
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:09
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Recently I set up a batch job to remind me of important events (via 
VMS MAIL) and then resubmit itself.  Yes, you can see the GLARING error
that I made -- I had not changed the trigger time and so the process went
berserk and sent me 1638 mail messages before it crashed.  Well, in a 
rush I deleted the mail out of my directory without reading it.

Now, everytime I logon I have 1638 new mail messages.  I cannot eradicate
this "flag".  I've tried deleting my mail directory, the "mail" itself 
(ie send myself new mail and then do a del/all within mail).  I've even
killed my UAF entry and regenerated......only to find 1638 mail messages
waiting!!!

So, where is this flag bit set and kept????  We have another account with
the same problem (only 2 msgs however).

This is driving me nuts!  ;-)

GRiM
(mendi@netcom.com)
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From: mendi@netcom.com (Greg Mendizabal)
Subject: New Mail won't die!
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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 14:09:41 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: mail
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