"mailbox: " does it Do the Right Thing?

Scott R. Presnell%Cohen srp at babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu
Sat Jun 15 02:17:06 AEST 1991


shenkin at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:

>I have one other mail question that was raised some time ago, but I forget 
>the answer.  If new mail arrives while I am reading mail (from Mail [BSD]),
>can I bring it into the existing session?  Suns have an option to do
>this, but I don't see an option for this on the Iris man page.  I think
>someone once mailed me a workaround, but I've forgotten it.

At the '&' say: "folder /usr/mail/<usrname>" and Mail will reread your
spool file.

	- Scott
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