Please help as soon as possible

[Pete Nesbitt]

On June 23, 2004 09:05 am, Nitin wrote:
> I'm talking about server side of my sendmail. I used mail utility of Linux
> to check the mail and it now doesn't show the messages printed once.
> There's an option 'unread' but it can only be used, while you are still in
> the session......
>
> Using Sendmail 8.9.3 on Redhat Linux 7.2.
>
> There's absolutely no messagebox file like there should be in
> /var/spool/mail. So what happened to those messages? are they deleted as
> soon as read ?
>
> Any help or links will b highly appreciated..
>
> Thanks
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MKlinke" <mklinke at axsi.com>
> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 9:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Please help as soon as possible
>
> > On Wednesday 23 June 2004 03:34, Nitin wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Its really urgent. Hope its easy for someone.
> > >
> > > I was looking for problem on my mail server and printed some mails
> > > out of it (of course for testing) with 'print'. By chance some of
> > > them were important messages, now, how do I mark them unread, so
> > > that they can be downloaded.
> > >
> > > Please help me as soon as possible.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> >
> > You forgot to say which mail user agent/software you are using but a
> > generally held convention is to right-click the message listing and
> > you'll be presented with a list of options that include several
> > different marking options.
> >
> > If this doesn't help you may want to include more information and
> > someone using the same software might be able to better help you.
> >
> > Regards,  Mike Klinke
> >
> >
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Hi,
If you used "mail' on the server (who's mail did you say you were reading?), 
then if you hit 'd' after reading the message, that would delete it when you 
exit 'mail'. However, If you hit 'n' (next message) or 'q' then those 
messages should still be there. Have a look at 'man mail'. 
-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce