[Cialug] bsd mail/mailx reading

[Scott Yates]

I THOUGHT it was just  "L" (lower case) to list the messages, but i may be
mistaken.  It has been a few years.


On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com>wrote:

> does anybody use bsd mail/mailx for reading?  since it's often installed
> for sending, it's also useful for reading and not needing to install a
> "real" client like mutt or (al)pine
>
> my question is: when you first run mail, it lists the messages and you can
> operate on them.  after the operations, though, the list goes away.  is
> there a way to redisplay the messages without quitting and restarting?
>
> example: login, start mail, it displays that I have 1000 messages.  run
> d1-998 to delete the first 998, 999 to read that message, d999 to delete
> it.  how do I re-list the messages to show the headers for message 1000
> (like when I launched mail)?  now I just quit, then restart mail and it
> shows the one message (as message 1)
>
> nothing end of the world, but there must be a Better Way(TM)
>
>
> -barry
>
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