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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: How to repeat "new Mail message" ?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 23:07:09 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <C1ExK5.FyK@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney) writes:
- >Technically, it shouldn't happen at all in this case. If the user has
- >AUTOPURGE on, there won't be any mail messages in the wastebasket when
- >mail is first fired up (unless the user is running mail under a different
- >login). So, with no mail commands executed, nothing will make it into
- >the wastebasket, nothing will get purged, and mail won't have to reclaim
- >space.
-
- Not quite true. Consider the following scenario:
- 1) User runs MAIL, deletes some messages, issues QUIT command.
- 2) User runs MAIL, does nothing except issue the EXIT command.
- 3) User runs MAIL, does anything involving his wastebasket folder,
- then issues the EXIT command.
- At the end of step 1), the deleted messages are still in the wastebasket
- folder. At the end of step 2), the messages are *STILL* in the wastebasket
- folder. Finally, at the end of step 3), the messages are gone. AUTOPURGE is
- invoked only if:
- 1) During the current mail session, you did anything that involved the
- wastebasket folder; and
- 2) You EXIT rather than QUITting.
- Now, as to the original subject of this thread, since the DCL procedure:
- $ MAIL
- $
- doesn't do anything with the wastebasket folder, AUTOPURGE, even if set, will
- not be invoked, so you need not use the QUIT command to streamline performance.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-