Hello trondd, On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 11:03:49AM -0500, trondd wrote: > On Fri, November 25, 2016 4:17 am, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > > Is this on purpose? > > > > I've tried adding 'set keep' to /etc/mail.rc and /root/.mailrc > > but mail(1) still removes empty mailbox files before quiting. > > > > Worked here. How exactly are you reading mail? >
Have you tried running mail as root as I said in the subject? For example, copy some mbox file to /tmp, then su to root and open the file: # mail -f /tmp/mbox Delete all messages and quit.
