[298] in Athena Bugs
Re: "inc" suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Sun May 1 02:50:53 1988
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: athena-ws@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, henry@garp.mit.edu
Reply-To: <athena-ws@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 30 Apr 88 23:13:55 -0400.
Date: Sun, 01 May 88 00:24:24 EDT
>A user in OLC suggested that inc be modified so that the user can tell
>how many messages (or perhaps how many K?) should be incorporated
>before the program stops.
There is a program, msgchk, which tells you how many messages are
waiting for the user at the post office. The default setup files use
this program, and any user can find out if there is mail waiting on a
post office by using the msgchk command. Since inc fetches all the
messages available on the postoffice, msgchk will provide the function
you seek.
In summary,
msgchk
inc
will provide the function you seek.
>Alternatively, has inc been modified in version 6.0 so that it will
>stop incorporating once the user starts getting write errors?
I believe it has been, but I will verify this on Monday.
>Finally, has anything policy-wise been said about what will happen if
>any of the post-offices fill up over the summer? I have heard that
>junk-mail was deleted last summer when things got full, but is that
>going to happen again this summer?
I haven't heard anything about this; Telecom (which is responsible for
maintaining the post offices) is probably your best source of
information on this concern. You'll notice that I've sent this reply
to "postmaster" so that it comes to their immediate attention.
Replies to athena-ws ONLY, please (bugs is not a discussion list).
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-- Henry Mensch / <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
-- Project Athena Quality Assurance
