[5177] in Athena Bugs
rt 6.4R: when using the inc command
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Jun 14 01:59:12 1990
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 90 01:58:48 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: johnb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[5074]
You wrote:
From: johnb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 90 12:08:35 EDT
to read new incoming mail, the message "no
new mail to incorparate" comes up when, in
fact, new mail has actually arrived as revealed
in the scan command
The "scan" command only shows mail which has already been incorporated
into your account using "inc". Furthermore, you can only incorporate
mail once using "inc", unless either you use the "-notruncate" flag to
inc, or you go over quota while you inc is running.
Therefore, there is no bug here. You apparently incorporated your
mail at some point and then either forgot that you had incorporated
it, or only looked at part of it after incorporating it, and then when
you typed "scan", it showed up since it was already incorporated.
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
