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- From: ryanr@lamar.lamar.colostate.edu (Richard Ryan)
- Subject: answers to my rmail problems and thanks
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Message-ID: <RYANR.92Jul25200525@lamar.lamar.colostate.edu>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 01:05:25 GMT
- Distribution: gnu
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- Hello,
-
- Before I continue, I would like to extend to everyone who has helped me
- with rmail the deepest thanks.
-
- I've getting mail to share the answers I've been getting concerning
- sharing answers I've been getting to my rmail problems.
-
- Problem 1:
- I had been getting error messages concerning emacs' rmail
- reading my /usr/spool/mail/ryanr file. Because emacs was not allowed
- to suck up "ryanr" from the directory, rmail could not read "ryanr."
-
- Here's the answer:
-
- > You need to change the group (using chown or chgrp) of the
- > executable file 'etc/movemail' to the group named 'mail', and then
- > turn on the setgid bit of 'etc/movemail' using 'chmod'. So the
- > commands will be something like this:
- >
- > cd /usr/local/emacs/etc # or wherever the emacs/etc directory is
- > chgrp mail movemail # or maybe chown <user>.mail movemail
- > chmod 2555 movemail # the 2 is setgid, the 5s make it
- > # executable and readable
- >
- > You will need to have the sysadmin do this if you cannot.
-
- Problem 2:
- After the sys admin fixed the problem, rmail could not find my
- mail file.
-
- Answer:
- When I was trying to figure out the first problem, I had
- pretty much dinked around with my .emacs file in desperation. I had
- tried to tell rmail where in the H-E-double-toothpicks to look for my
- darn ol' mail file. Somebody sent me mail letting me know that I
- needed the last slash you now see in the following string argument.
- (setq rmail-spool-directory "/usr/spool/mail/")
-
- If there's anything else anyone else wants to know concerning the
- requests for help with rmail I've posted, please mail me.
-
- Again, for everyone who has helped me out with this situation, thank
- you.
-
- Richard.
-
- p.s. Ironically, my next posting is going to be a request for help
- installing VM :-)
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- ...
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