[Info-vax] VMS MAIL: order of DELETE

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qokan0$jd8$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> > When I looked at a sample of mailbox entries before writing the above,
> > they were all in ascending date order in the directory. However, I've
> > now seen others which are not in ascending date order (based on the
> > output from dir/date).

Maybe copied from somewhere else?

> But still, *if* they are large enough to be stored as separate files,
> not directly in the MAIL.MAI file.

Right, but probably almost all are.

> Also, say you do a SELECT and get a list 1-10 on the screen. Those
> numbers are only relevant for that specific SELECT. If you do another
> SELECT you can get some of the same mails but with other numbers.

Right.

> Is there a known order of the returned SELECT result?

Sorted by the time in the Date: field, oldest at the top (which, again, 
I really like). 

> I'd say this is a non issue with todays systems and storage. 

Right, even on VMS.

> And I
> do not belive that the volume of anyones daily mails are on VMS.

Maybe I'm an exception.  :-)