razdan@chanakya.oakhill.uucp (Anshuman Razdan) (02/09/90)
I finall got Xmh up and running(sort of), thanks to advice from Donna Converse to compile using cc and not gcc It does not reflect my incoming mail nor can I send mail out side. I want it to look in mail folder which is /var/spool/mail/razdan on my machine so I set the Path variable in $(HOME)/.mh_profile Path: /var/spool/mail -- Did not work It complains: xmh: Execvp failed! errno = 2; No such file or directory exiting. I tried xmh -initail /var/spool/mail/razdan and xmh -path /var/spool/mail -initial razdan That still does not work. Am I doing something wrong? How do I make it to read my mail? Please answer on the net or e-mail Anshuman Razdan oakhill!chanakya!razdan@cs.utexas.edu
converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Donna Converse) (02/13/90)
> It [xmh] does not reflect my incoming mail nor can I send mail > out side. I want it to look in mail folder which is > /var/spool/mail/razdan on my machine so I set the Path variable > in $(HOME)/.mh_profile > > Path: /var/spool/mail -- Did not work To specify the spool file from which to retrieve incoming mail, see the xmh man page, "Application-Specific Resources", InitialIncFile resource. You could try something like Xmh*InitialIncFile: /var/spool/mail/razdan The MH Path variable is something else. MH will store mail in a hierarchy of folders in the directory given by the Path. Once mail has been read from your incoming mail drop, it is not returned there. Read the description of the application-specific resource MailPath in the xmh man page. > I tried xmh -initail /var/spool/mail/razdan The -initial option takes the following argument to be the name of a mail folder to display upon startup, and which receives new mail from the system. See InitialFolder. > and xmh -path /var/spool/mail -initial razdan The biggest thing that you don't understand is that your mail isn't kept in /var/spool/mail/razdan after you use xmh. This wouldn't work either. > Anshuman Razdan > oakhill!chanakya!razdan@cs.utexas.edu Donna Converse converse@expo.lcs.mit.edu