ix561@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (MONSTER) (04/13/89)
Last time I posted a question about the c-s key. Thanks very much to those who replied. I got another problem here: when I invoke Rmail in Emacs, it's supposed to copy my mbox to RMAIL, but it actually moves mbox(in UNIX format) to Rmail so that I cannot use UNIX command to read the old mails now. I'd prefer use UNIX mail more often, what can I do about this? I cannot recover the mbox into UNIX format now.(well, I could edit it to change it back, but it's not a small file.) Please email your answers. Your help is appreciated. Wen
jayaprak@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jayaprakash Krishnamoorthy) (11/18/89)
Is there any way to have the RMAIL file located in a directory other than the HOME directory? Looks like the path is hardcoded in the variable rmail-file-name. Thanks in advance. -Jayaprakash
gshapiro@wpi.wpi.edu (Gregory N. Shapiro) (11/19/89)
>>>>> On 17 Nov 89 17:48:53 GMT, jayaprak@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jayaprakash Krishnamoorthy) said:
jayaprak> Is there any way to have the RMAIL file located in a directory other
jayaprak> than the HOME directory? Looks like the path is hardcoded in the
jayaprak> variable rmail-file-name. Thanks in advance.
Here is the syntax:
(setq rmail-file-name (expand-file-name "~/.rmail"))
Put the path inside the quotes (which are necessary)
Greg
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____________________________________________________________________________pjnesser@fenchurch.mit.edu (Philip John Nesser) (11/20/89)
In article <1976@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jayaprak@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jayaprakash Krishnamoorthy) writes: > >Is there any way to have the RMAIL file located in a directory other >than the HOME directory? Looks like the path is hardcoded in the >variable rmail-file-name. Thanks in advance. > Try putting: (setq rmail-file-name (expand-file-name "~Mail/RMAIL")) in your .emacs file, where ~/Mail/RMAIL is where mine lives. You can put it wherever you want. ---> Philip J. Nesser Student Staff Software Engineer MIT EECS Educational Computer Facility
hallett@pet3.uucp (Jeff Hallett x5163 ) (11/20/89)
In article <1976@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jayaprak@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jayaprakash Krishnamoorthy) writes: > >Is there any way to have the RMAIL file located in a directory other >than the HOME directory? Looks like the path is hardcoded in the >variable rmail-file-name. Thanks in advance. > >-Jayaprakash Yeah, if you set the variable rmail-inbox-list to a list of strings, each string designating a file to check for new mail. The file can be in either Babyl, UNIX or any other format RMAIL can translate. This variable has to be set in your rmail-mode-hook, though. On a somewhat different note, is there anyway to detect, on a Sun/3, when the Emacstool is opened and trigger RMAIL to automatically "get" new mail? Pretty handy... -- Jeffrey A. Hallett, PET Software Engineering GE Medical Systems, W641, PO Box 414, Milwaukee, WI 53201 (414) 548-5163 : EMAIL - hallett@gemed.ge.com Est natura hominum novitatis avida