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- From: bam@jutland.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Bo Muldbak)
- Subject: Re: Elm and ~/.newmail
- Message-ID: <1992Nov06.064822.16759@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: NCR Corporation, MCPD Columbia SC.
- References: <1992Nov04.230423.122672@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1992Nov5.023831.5549@DSI.COM>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 11:48:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.023831.5549@DSI.COM>, syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
- writes:
- |> claudius@zeus.calpoly.edu (King_Claudius (Chris Knight)) writes:
- |> >When [if ever] will elm support incoming mail boxes in user's home
- |> directories?
- |> >[It seems like such a minor change, at least from a development point of
- |> >view...]
- |> Its not a minor change, as the concept of locking changes drasticly.....
- |>
- |> >Does elm 2.4 already support it [and I just have to give Configure some
- |> funky
- |> >expression when it asks where the spooling directory is?]
- |> No 2.4 does not support mail spool files other than in the spool
- |> directory.
- |> If someone sent me proper patches to support it, including locking, and
- |> recognizing that the file in the home directory (or elsewhere) is the
- |> spool
- |> file properly, I don't mine including them.
-
- Am I just being stupid, or is this supported through the use of environment
- variable 'MAIL' ???
-
- I am using it myself to redirect mail (through mailagents) to
- alternative mailbox. I have had incoming box in both alternate
- /var/mail box and in "MAIL=/home/bam/mail.box". And it seem to work
- just fine. (config for SysV.4 machine). And ELM is using correct both
- xxx.lock file and unix locks fcntl.
-
- Regards
- Bo Muldbak
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