[Info-vax] need help with corrupt MAIL.MAI file

[Bob Koehler]

In article <heg4kc$2o2$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> In article <heg3to$2a6$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de
> (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes: 
> 
>> ***************
>> %%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  23-NOV-2009 16:13:51.76  %%%%%%%%%%%
>> $22$DKA100: (DANEEL) has been removed from shadow set.
>> 
>> %%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  23-NOV-2009 16:13:51.83  %%%%%%%%%%%
> 
> I privately mounted this disk /NOWRITE.  No problem.  
> 
> Unfortunately, MAIL can't show me anything since it apparently wants 
> WRITE access even if I just want to READ something.  :-(

   Yeah, it needs to keep track of which email are new and which
   have been read.  It does this by moving it out of the NEWMAIL
   folder, which requires write access.  And even if you're not
   reading any new mail, mail doesn't know that when it opens
   the file.