On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 01:13:17PM -0500, trondd wrote: > On Fri, November 25, 2016 12:36 pm, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > > 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 > > > > This makes a difference. That's not a system mailbox. 'Keep' seems to > only apply to a system mailbox and not to a "file".
I was running mailx as root for avoiding to login as other users each time I wanted to check the content of spam. And I couldn't reproduce the issue as a normal user because in this case I was reading the user's system mailbox (the one owned by the user) as you rightly noticed. > Though, it seems like it should. I think it could be useful having the option. I owe you two beers :-)
