"Jarkko Hietaniemi" <j...@iki.fi> writes: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> wrote: >>> elm and mailx both do it that way IIRC, though elm does not accept exit >>> or quit, but just plain x and q >> >> And elm prompts you if you're risking data loss. > > > Hmmm, could have been mailx, I used to use that heavily, maybe I'm > conflating the "features" of different programs.
But that's "quit and save read mails to ~/mbox" vs "quit and leave mails in spool", so you don't lose data either way. -- ilmari "A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is, at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
