[Cialug] bsd mail/mailx reading

[Barry Von Ahsen]

thanks - I think I found that in the past from 'help', but I forgot to mention this is on CentOS, which is slightly confused about what it can and can't do.  I tried that and:

& l
Commands are:
next, alias, print, type, Type, Print, visual, top, touch, preserve, 
delete, dp, dt, undelete, unset, mail, mbox, more, page, More, Page, 
unread, U, !, copy, chdir, cd, save, source, set, shell, version, 
group, write, from, file, folder, folders, ?, z, headers, help, =, 
Reply, Respond, reply, respond, edit, echo, quit, list, xit, exit, 
size, hold, if, else, endif, alternates, ignore, discard, retain, 
saveignore, savediscard, saveretain, core, #, clobber


attempting to run 'list', which it says is a command, gives the same message again:

& list
Commands are:
next, alias, print, type, Type, Print, visual, top, touch, preserve, 
delete, dp, dt, undelete, unset, mail, mbox, more, page, More, Page, 
unread, U, !, copy, chdir, cd, save, source, set, shell, version, 
group, write, from, file, folder, folders, ?, z, headers, help, =, 
Reply, Respond, reply, respond, edit, echo, quit, list, xit, exit, 
size, hold, if, else, endif, alternates, ignore, discard, retain, 
saveignore, savediscard, saveretain, core, #, clobber

so it's probably a CentOS issue

-barry


On Dec 28, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Scott Yates wrote:

> 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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