When you have TOO MUCH MAIL
If you are over quota, it is difficult to incorporate your mail. However,
there are times when you may receive far more mail than you can store or want
to store in your own file space. Here is a temporary solution:
Create a directory on the temporary filesystem:
mkdir -p /var/tmp/$USER/tempbox
Now you can incorporate your mail there, without using up any of your quota:
inc +/var/tmp/$USER/tempbox
If you want to leave a couple of your mail messages on the post office, so
that you can incorporate them later as well, you should also use the
"-notruncate" option.
If you do not use "-notruncate", all the messages that you have inc'd
will be removed from the server and only exist in
/var/tmp/$USER/tempbox, a directory that will be automatically deleted
in three days. Those messages that you wish to keep should be moved
to your normal inbox with the "refile +inbox" command. Those that you
don't wish to keep should be deleted so that they do not remain on the
local disk of the workstation, readable by the next user.
Be sure to go back under quota as soon as possible. Otherwise you may not be
able to create new files or edit existing ones.
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Alternately, you can use the pop program in SIPB to delete the mail
directly from the mail server - this may be useful for people using
Netscape mail or other mail-reading programs which are not compatible
with the mh-mail inbox format.
athena% add sipb
athena% pop
pop: connect
pop: list
This will give you an output like:
message size
1 443
2 2398
3 833293
which lists the size of each message. If you want to look at a
particular message, you can do
pop: retr ##
or, to look at the top 20 lines of a message,
pop: top ## 20
Finally, you can do
pop: delete ##
to delete a particular message number and then
pop: quit
To undo all the changes you have made without quitting, such as if you
dele'd the wrong number, you can do
pop: rset
to exit the program. If you do not use quit to exit pop, your changes
will not be saved. However, if you *do* use quit to exit, and have
deleted something, it is gone forever and recovering it is unlikely.
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If someone has sent you one very large message which is causing
problems, and you just want to remove that one message from your mail
queue without incorporating it, there is a script which will do this:
add consult
popdelete
If you run this, the script will find the single largest mail message
in your queue, tell you what it is, and offer to download it to
temporary file storage (and remove it from the server).
Last updated 4-29-98
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