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- From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
- Subject: Re: ELM 2.3 Configure question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.213517.12977@DSI.COM>
- Keywords: spool
- Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA
- References: <lg5fusINNb95@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:35:17 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- wsadkin@bbn.com (Will Sadkin) writes:
- >Our site is uses MMDF as its mail transport agent. It deposits
- >mail into the user's ~/mailbox directory.
-
- >One of the questions Configure asks is:
- > Where is yet-to-be-read mail spooled? [/usr/spool/mail/]
-
- >When I specify ~/mailbox, and re-run Configure, I get:
- > Where is yet-to-be-read mail spooled? [/d4m/wsadkin/mailbox]
-
- >(ie. it's expanding the ~ for me personally, and not using the generic
- >"home directory".)
-
- >I can't change the fact that all mail is not deposited in one central
- >directory.
-
- >What do I do?
- 2.3 and 2.4 are not directly configurable as to the spool file being
- in the users home directory. However, both do honor the MAIL environment
- variable. I'd configure it with /usr/spool/mail or /usr/mail or whatever
- and the set the MAIL= environment variable in some global shell startup file.
- --
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL08
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
- syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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