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Conference star::wizards

Title: "ASK THE WIZARDS"
Moderator:QUARK::LIONEL
Created:Mon Oct 30 1995
Last Modified:Mon May 12 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1857
Total number of notes:3728

1600.0. "Open: mail file problem" by STAR::JKEENAN () Fri Feb 14 1997 08:12

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Name: Tung Liu
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Re: VAX MAIL

In my vax account, I found some MAILxxxxxxxx.TEXT files.
Those are some emails. From time to time, I got these
files in my account. I can use "type" command to 
read the file but not from MAIL. How come I got 
these files? These files are anonying since it takes 
up space and I cannot use MAIL to organize them.

Tung 
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1600.1Those Files Are Mail MessagesXDELTA::HOFFMANSteve, OpenVMS EngineeringFri Feb 14 1997 16:5414
   Please enter the command: 

	MAIL> SET MAIL [.MAIL]

   This command will relocate MAIL-related files into the specified
   [.MAIL] subdirectory.  This command does not delete the files, but
   it does often serve to `clean up' your SYS$LOGIN: login directory.

   Files with names of the format MAIL$%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%.MAI;1 are
   mail messages that are larger than about three blocks in size.
   Mail messages smaller than three blocks are stored directly in
   the MAIL.MAI file.