[Info-vax] purging another user's mail from a semi-priviledged account

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <DJLAMz2JY3o3 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes: 

> > No group, but system write access.
> 
>    That's all MAIL needs.  MAIL uses system access to get write write
>    access in order to write email into your mail file and/or directory.

Yes, that occurred to me after posting.

>    Just try getting email with system write access turned off.

Write, for DELIVERING mail.  Presumably, typing a command at the MAIL> 
prompt is not necessarily the same thing.