mail(1) save command does not work as in the man page

[Anton Shterenlikht]

	From bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com Thu Jul 26 02:58:29 2012
	Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:37:47 -0500 (CDT)
	From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com>
	To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org, mexas at bristol.ac.uk
	Subject: Re: mail(1) save command does not work as in the man page
	>
	> Any comments?

	This is the 'standard'/*EXPECTED* behavior of 'mail', and has been, since
	the early 1980s.   (I still use 'mail' as my standard mail client'.)

	If invoked _without_ specifying a maibox, 
	  1) mail that is written to another mailbox is deleted from the inbox on exit.
	  2) mail that was read, but _not_ written/deleted is saved to 'mbox'.

	If invoked *WITH* '-f', messages are not deleted/moved on exit.  you must 
	_explicitly_ perform any desired actions.


	You've found a bug in the _documentation_, not the progam.  :)


ok, I might make a patch for mail.1 when
I have the time.

Thanks