[Cialug] bsd mail/mailx reading

[Scott Yates]

ish, that sucks.  Time to install Pine or Elm.  lol


On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com>wrote:

> 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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