mail..whats this?

Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

mail..whats this?

Tags

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting mail..whats this?

12-24-2005

Registered User

58, 0

Join Date: Oct 2005

Last Activity: 2 August 2006, 7:42 AM EDT

Location: Mumbai,India

Posts: 58

Thanks Given: 0

Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

mail..whats this?

Can anyone explain meaning of this?
It takes a lot of time to display mail when i type "mail" on prompt.

--------------------------------------------------------
mail: Too many letters, overflowing letters concatenated
--------------------------------------------------------

Regards
Abhijeet

abhijeetkul

View Public Profile for abhijeetkul

Find all posts by abhijeetkul

12-25-2005

Registered User

3,093, 36

Join Date: Apr 2002

Last Activity: 28 March 2019, 4:00 PM EDT

Location: On my motorcycle

Posts: 3,093

Thanks Given: 2

Thanked 36 Times in 11 Posts

It means you have so much mail that you haven't read/removed that it's clogging your in box. You just need to clean it up. Go into mail and start deleting the stuff you don't need.

RTM

View Public Profile for RTM

Find all posts by RTM

Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Client was not authenticated to send anonymous mail during MAIL FROM (in reply to MAIL FROM comm

I am having trouble getting mail to work on a red hat server. At first I was getting this message. Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; delivery temporarily suspended: connect to :25: Connection refused Then added the port to my firewall. Then I temporarily turned off selinux. I then copied this file...

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

need to configure mail setting to send mail to outlook mail server

i have sun machines having solaris 9 & 10 OS . Now i need to send mail from the machines to my outlook account . I have the ip adress of OUTLOOK mail server. Now what are the setting i need to do in solaris machines so that i can use mailx or sendmail. actually i am trying to automate the high...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

##*_ - whats this?

Hi all, could you please tell me whats this stands ##*_ 0##*/ i knew this alone if some more is there please tell me that also.

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

whats this NAME=${0##*/}

hi all, i found NAME=${0##*/} in a script. i given this coomand in my unix box(presently in ksh). echo ${0##*/} it returned ksh. the purpose of the above is to return the shell name or more than that. do you have any more information like this, please share with me. one more query...

5. Solaris

how to forward mail in /var/mail/username to external mail

Dear All, Now I use solaris 10 and I try to forward mail from /var/mail/username to their external mail so what should I do? thank u in advance

6. What is on Your Mind?

Whats Behind Your Name?

Looking at the member list, there are alot of interesting names, some unique, some bizarre, and some that are just plain. How did you come by your name? Why did you choose your label? Me? Well, I wish I could change mine. I chose Google because thats how I stumbled upon this site. I wasn't sure...

7. Post Here to Contact Site Administrators and Moderators

Whats the go?

woofie, Your posts are being deleted because your use of profanity. I am close to changing your status to read only. In fact, if you argue with the mods again, I will ban you from these boards. Neo

8. Solaris

Whats the command to see

What fonts are installed on a Solaris 8? I have no GUI so a command line command would be great. Thank you

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Whats does this mean

Found this piece of code written in ksh. I have no ideas what do the stuff like ${SRF##*\.} do. SUFFIX=${SRF##*\.} if ; then SUFFIX="" fi I have encountered similar expressions in other programs also. Any pointers on where to learn more about these...

Login or Register to Ask a Question