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- From: dwolfe@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Dave Wolfe)
- Subject: Re: Changing location of mailbox lock files?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.172943.10294@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:29:43 GMT
- References: <MLARSON.92Aug21104502@larson.corp.hp.com> <1992Aug21.211200.7108@DSI.COM> <MLARSON.92Aug24114915@larson.corp.hp.com> <117@eiffel.eiffel.com>
- Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
- Keywords: .forward
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- In <117@eiffel.eiffel.com> ram@eiffel.com (Raphael Manfredi) writes:
-
- >But why bother starting extra processes? Simply set you .forward to:
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- >/users/mlarson/mail/mlarson
-
- >and then the only thing you are going to miss is the 'N' mark, as
- >elm thinks everything which is not in the system spool directory
- >has already been read. I think there is an (unofficial) patch to
- >fix that problem and make the behaviour consistent.
-
- >The file hook in the .forward (as opposed to the "|process" hook)
- >also has the advantage of letting sendmail (via /bin/rmail) lock your
- >file before delivering the mail.
-
- If you set and export MAIL to the same path, then elm treats that
- mailbox as your system mailbox, so status flags and locking work on it
- just as if it was /usr/mail/mlarson (or whatever). To summarize:
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- Create a $HOME/.forward file containing (for example):
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- /users/mlarson/mail/mlarson
-
- In your .profile/.login or whatever, add the line (for example):
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- MAIL=/users/mlarson/mail/mlarson export MAIL
-
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- Dave Wolfe | 6501 William Cannon Dr. W. | (512) 891-3246
- Motorola SPS | Austin, TX 78735-8598 | dwolfe@pets.sps.mot.com
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