celvin@arda.ee.surrey.ac.uk (Chris Elvin) (06/01/90)
The subject says it all really. I've got elm 2.2 (pl 12) which supports mailboxes which live in a users home directory rather than in /var/spool/mail Does elm 2.3 allow such a scheme -- Chris Elvin C.Elvin@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK "what happens if I press this big red button" Dept of Elec. Eng, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH. England
rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo) (06/03/90)
In article <1990Jun1.095754.28633@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> celvin@arda.ee.surrey.ac.uk (Chris Elvin) writes: >The subject says it all really. I've got elm 2.2 (pl 12) which supports >mailboxes which live in a users home directory rather than in /var/spool/mail >Does elm 2.3 allow such a scheme? Yes and no. The configuration asks the name of the mail spool directory, but that can be overridden on a particular invokation of ELM with the MAIL environmental variable, which ELM takes to be the user's mail spool file. So, theoretically (or should I say "klugedly"?), the answer is "yes": configure ELM with some or other directory but have each user have MAIL set appropriately, e.g. in /etc/profile or /etc/login. -- Rob Bernardo, Mt. Diablo Software Solutions email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US phone: (415) 827-4301
heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com (06/07/90)
In article <1990Jun1.095754.28633@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> celvin@arda.ee.surrey.ac.uk (Chris Elvin) writes: >The subject says it all really. I've got elm 2.2 (pl 12) which supports >mailboxes which live in a users home directory rather than in /var/spool/mail > >Does elm 2.3 allow such a scheme > I used Elm 2.2 and now have Elm 2.3; I'm running this on a Sun/386i which uses mail "inboxes" in ~/mail/inbox. It is working just fine. In my .login, I define setenv MAIL ~/mail/inbox -- Bill Heiser Work: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com {decuac,necntc,uunet}!rayssd!tdw201!heiser Home: Bill.Heiser@f240.n322.z1.fidonet.org (Fidonet 1:322/240) The Think_Tank BBS (508)655-3848 1200/2400/9600-HST Other: 75106.2332@compuserve.com, heiser@world.std.com (Public Access Unix)