Recall that when a new account is created with the ADD command, the
default account is used as a source of defaults for the
new account. Thus, by changing the settings for the
default account with the MODIFY command, you change the
defaults which will be applied to subsequently created accounts. For
instance, to change the default account quota to 100 kbytes with an
overdraft quota of 10 kbytes, you would modify the default
account accordingly:
popstore> MODIFY DEFAULT/QUOTA=100/OVERDRAFT=10
Note that the settings for the default account only
applies to new accounts created with the ADD command. The default
account settings do not apply to all existing accounts.
7.7 Bulk loading accounts
To create many accounts at once, use the @ command to execute commands
from a command file. Before using that command, first create a file
containing commands with one command per line. For instance,
$ TYPE A.COM ADD BJAMES/OWNER="Bob James"/PASSWORD=837271 ADD CSMITH/OWNER="Cathy Smith"/PASSWORD=382374 ADD RBROWN/OWNER="Randy Brown"/PASSWORD=383838 ... $Then use the @ command to execute the commands from the file:
$ PMDF POPSTORE popstore> @A.COM popstore> ADD BJAMES/OWNER="Bob James"/PASSWORD=837271 popstore> ADD CSMITH/OWNER="Cathy Smith"/PASSWORD=382374 popstore> ADD RBROWN/OWNER="Randy Brown"/PASSWORD=383838 popstore> ... popstore> QUIT $Each command will be read from the specified file and executed. If an error occurs, it will be reported and processing of the file will continue. Each command from the file will be echoed as it is executed. Use the @@ command to suppress the command echo,
$ PMDF POPSTORE popstore> @A.COM popstore> QUIT $
Any command recognized by this utility may be used in the command file, including @ and @@ commands.
7.8 Returning or deleting messages
A user's stored messages may be deleted with the DELETE/MESSAGES
command. When the /RETURN qualifier is also specified, any unread
messages are returned as unread to their sender. For instance, to
delete the messages for the account jdoe, returning any
unread messages, use the command
popstore> DELETE/MESSAGES/RETURN JDOE
Note that the /RETURN qualifier may also be used with the DELETE command as described in Section 7.5 .