Summary: How do I start messages without reading mail?
Keywords: messages, mail, bulletin board
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Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:33:57 GMT
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Hello everbody,
The Messages program has some known options as
-s for ~/sendmessageinit
-m for only reading mail
-w for separate windows for each region
I wonder if there is also an option that prevents "messages" from accessing the /var/spool/mail directory at startup time. I just want to read the bulletin boards. Does anybody know?
Yes, I can set "unset hold" in my ".mailrc", but that file can also be used by other programs, so that is not a very good solution.
I am asking this, because at our site some people use messages and some want to use Eudora at their Mac's. We can not tell everyone to use the AMS system.