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- From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
- Subject: Re: Problems with OW3 mailtool
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- Keywords: OW3, Mailtool
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <1992Nov18.135646.4302@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:54:19 GMT
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- In <1992Nov18.135646.4302@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdc11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.D. Carver) writes:
-
- >Ever since upgrading to OW3, I've been plagued by not having enough
- >space in /var/spool/mail for users default mailboxes. With the version
- >of mailtool in OW2, I use to get users to have
- >'set nohold'
- >in their .mailrc file so that read messages would automatically be moved
- >to their private mbox. But now with OW3 version, this no longer happens,
- >Mailtool ignores the nohold variable. Is this a known bug and is there a
- >patch?
-
- The problem may be the ``set hold'' that appears in /usr/lib/Mail.rc.
- Try changing that.
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- -Gary Mills- -Networking Group- -U of M Computer Services-
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