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- SET APPEND-NEW-MAIL NO/yes - whether to append to mbox or rewrite mbox
-
- With the usual NO setting, when new mail is received, MM renames the file
- defined by MAIL-FILE (normally "mbox") to the filename with ~ (normally
- mbox~), and then completely rewrites MAIL-FILE with the new mail included.
-
- If you change it to YES, incoming mail (new messages) will be appended
- directly to the file defined by MAIL-FILE. Setting to YES enables MM to
- store incoming mail more quickly. However, it is not quite as safe as
- setting to NO: while there is no more likelihood of losing new mail, the
- statuses of messages are updated on disk much less frequently.
-
- For more help, type "help" and one of these topics:
- (at any prompt:) check set mail-file
- (at the MM> prompt:) expunge write
-