"mailbox: " does it Do the Right Thing?

[roberts]

> I love mailbox, which is new with the 3.3 release I just installed on my
> 4d25tg.  However, it has one undesirable behavior that I have noticed:
> it seems to trap all interrupts.  Though this is useful in some places,
> it disallows aborting a reply or message.  That is, if I run Mail from
> a wsh, then change my mind about sending it, I can hit ^C twice, and it
> cancels the message.  Since the mail window opened by mailbox traps
> interrupts, however, I can't do this.  The only way to abort the reply
> is to close the window, which may not do what you want, since you might
> want to delete things that you've read, or something like that, before you
> quit.

Try the "Delete" key instead of ^C.

> I have one other mail question that was raised some time ago, but I forget 
> the answer.  If new mail arrives while I am reading mail (from Mail [BSD]),
> can I bring it into the existing session?  Suns have an option to do
> this, but I don't see an option for this on the Iris man page.  I think
> someone once mailed me a workaround, but I've forgotten it.

Try "fi %" at the Mail command prompt.

	- Robert Stephens
	  Silicon Graphics Inc.