Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!ames!mailrus!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!LBL.GOV!info-vax-request%kl.sri.COM%KL.SRI.COM%lbl%sfsu1.hepnet From: info-vax-request%kl.sri.COM%KL.SRI.COM%lbl%sfsu1.hepnet@LBL.GOV Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: GETTING RID OF THOSE PHANTOM NEW MAIL MSGS UPON LOGIN.. Message-ID: <880528165324.23e035c8@LBL.Gov> Date: 28 May 88 23:53:24 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 37 Received: from KL.SRI.COM by LBL.Gov with INTERNET ; Sat, 28 May 88 16:51:03 PDT Received: from ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU by KL.SRI.COM with TCP; Mon 23 May 88 22:14:02-PDT Received: by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (5.59/1.28) id AA28385; Mon, 23 May 88 17:46:13 PDT Received: from USENET by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU with netnews for info-vax@kl.sri.com (info-vax@kl.sri.com) (contact usenet@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU if you have questions) Date: 23 May 88 18:41:15 GMT From: mandrill!musky2!terrell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Roger Terrell) Organization: Muskingum College, New Concord, OH Subject: Re: GETTING RID OF THOSE PHANTOM NEW MAIL MSGS UPON LOGIN.. Message-Id: <105@musky2.MUSKINGUM.EDU> References: <183615.2147405664@vaxa.usu.edu> Sender: info-vax-request@kl.sri.com To: info-vax@kl.sri.com > The easiest way of removing those Phantom MAIL messages is to get into >mail and type in "READ/NEW". Then type in "SHOW NEWMAIL" it should tell >you that "you have 0 new mail messages". Hope that helps. > If you do not have a mail file (mail.mai) send yourself a mail message >and then go through the above. The above procedure does not work on our machine (VMS 4.7). The only way we have found to get rid of those mail messages is to copy a mail.mai file from another account (be sure the mail.mai file has the correct number of mail messages in it; i.e. 2 messages if you have 2 Phantom messages) into your own directory and then get into MAIL and read the messages from that mail.mai file... --Roger -- Roger Terrell ...musky2!terrell (UUCP) terrell@muskingum.edu (CSNet)