Subject: eperiancing difficulty in deleting

From: Sohrab Rai <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 10:43:32 +0530 (IST)

sir,i am a regular user of pine and i get quiet many males everyday.but i
am having a problem,because my inbox has something like 90 messagesin it
which i am not being able to delete.i use the delete option but none of
the messafes get deleted.what do u think i should do?any suggestions?am i
using the correct commands?i would be very obliged to u if you could solve
my problem for me by telling me how to go about deleting my old and unused
messages,thanking you.sohrab rai

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 07:08:42 +0100 (CET)

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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Sohrab Rai wrote:

  >sir,i am a regular user of pine and i get quiet many males everyday.

Congratulations, Miss Rai ;-)  
  
  >but i am having a problem,because my inbox has something like 90 messages
  >in it which i am not being able to delete. I use the delete option but
  >none of the messafes get deleted. What do you think I should do? Any
  >suggestions? Am I using the correct commands? I would be very obliged to
  >you if you could solve my problem for me by telling me how to go about
  >deleting my old and unused messages.
  
Deleting should do the trick. You could of course try to set up pine
differently, so that you can X(punge) those messages directly. Be careful,
though, they will be lost forever.

I you cannot delete those messages at all, you should talk to your
sys-admin.

Cheers,
Robin

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Robin S. Socha,
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn

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