In message <200403111513.KAA16822@grex.cyberspace.org>, Andy Ball writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>Is there some way that I can convince mail to return me
>to the & prompt after I delete a message?  By default it
>open the next message, marking it as read and moving it
>to mbox.  I would really much rather it didn't make
>assumptions about what I want to do next. I have skimmed
>through the mail manpage, but didn't spot an obvious
>solution.  Any ideas?
>

As best I can tell, from the man page and from some tests, what you 
want is, in fact, the default behavior.  The behavior you describe is 
enabled by 'set autoprint', presumably in a .mailrc file.  Check that 
file, or test it by doing 'unset autoprint'.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb