michael@pbinfo.UUCP (11/04/86)
Can anybody explain me, why GNU Emacs (17.64)
cannot read in my 'rmail-inbox-list' on a Pyramid?
I am in the 'ucb'-universe and the value of this
variable is set to the (I think) correct values
("~/mbox" "/usr/spool/mail/$USER").
Michael
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ARPA: michael%pbinfo.uucp@seismo.css.gov | West Germanyjr@CC5.BBN.COM (John Robinson) (11/08/86)
I was mystified by something like this until I realized that certain filespecs have to be interpreted by sh (not csh or unix-emacs); perhaps you should expend the "~" to (the value of) $HOME. /jr
mike@yetti.UUCP (Mike Clarkson ) (11/10/86)
Rmail reads your incoming mailbox (from the files in rmail-inbox-list) by calling rmail-insert-inbox-text. This in turn uses the `c' program movemail which is in ./gnuemacs/etc/ to copy the mail from your mailbox to a temporary file ~/.newmail (call-process (expand-file-name "movemail" exec-directory) nil nil nil file tofile) It uses movemail so that Emacs can read the mail file without conflicting with someone else who may be accessing /usr/spool/mail/$USER ($MAIL on most Un*x systems) at the same time (sending you mail). If movemail doesn't work, nor will rmail-insert-inbox-text. Make sure movemail works first. Try % movemail $MAIL ~/.newmail first to make sure it works. movemail should move the contents of $MAIL to ~/.newmail. If your system supports file locking, $MAIL should be empty (0 bytes), and all of your mail should be in ~/.newmail. If this doesn't work, fix it and Rmail should work. -- Mike Clarkson, ...!allegra \ BITNET: mike@YUYETTI or CRESS, York University, ...!decvax \ SYMALG@YUSOL 4700 Keele Street, ...!ihnp4 > !utzoo!yetti!mike North York, Ontario, ...!linus / CANADA M3J 1P3. ...!watmath / Phone: +1 (416) 737-2100 x 7767 "...the most inevitable business communications system on the planet." - ROLM magazine advertisement which planet?