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From: CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET ("Kevin Cole at Gallaudet U. Washington DC")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS Mail Problem
Message-ID: <8712080458.AA08630@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 17:18:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 17:18:00 1987
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>I have a problem with VAX mail.....
>It seems that every time I login, it tells me I have one new mail message,
>but when I get into mail, and type dir, it gives me the directory of my
>main folder. This seems to have been caused by my compressing the main
>mail file down when I received a mail message. Can someone tell me how to
>get rid of that outstanding mail message????
>I've already tried to compress it down again, but it still hasn't gone
>away.   HELP!!!!!

Try:
        READNEW

(one word).  Seems to reset the count here.

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