Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!tedcrane From: tedcrane@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Ted Crane) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: an interesting [MAIL] problem I have.... Message-ID: <3194@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 15 Dec 87 23:10:06 GMT References: <8712080300.AA06591@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <3123@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <9587@udenva.cair.du.edu> Reply-To: tedcrane@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Ted Crane) Organization: Tompkins County Computing, Ithaca, NY Lines: 14 In article <9587@udenva.cair.du.edu> jrozbori@udenva.UUCP (Jim Rozboril) writes: >>By now, several people must have offered the solution to this problem >>(new mail counter and contents of NEWMAIL folder out of synch). >>READ/NEW is documented, ... >> >Hey folks, I tried read/new and it didn't work. Any other suggestions? > >roz It hasn't failed me yet. Of course, if you READ/NEW and there is new mail waiting to be read, it will read the new mail and NOT reset the counter. You have to continue using READ/NEW until there is not more new mail and you get the message No more Mail