comp-mail-mush@srhqla.uucp (06/07/89)
From: island!maui!argv (Dan Heller) > On Jun 6, 3:59pm, Arnold D. Robbins wrote: > On BSD unix, ucbmail will read the file specified by the MAIL environment > variable. Usually this is /usr/spool/mail/<user>, but it does not have > to be. We are taking advantage of this feature to move student mailboxes > into their home directories which are exported via NFS to a bunch of > A/UX (ugh) mac-ii's. > > I am having trouble putting this into mush 6.5 pl 3, even though the changes > are "straightforward". Mush *always* reads the system spool file, even > if MAIL is set to something different. You could always move mush to _mush and then have the "mush" binary be a shell script which reads: exec _mush -m $MAIL $* if the user gives a -m flag on his own, it'll override the one specified here. It sounds like a reasonable thing to do since it seems to be a frequently requested feature. --dan
ronald@ibmpcug.co.uk (Ronald Khoo) (06/08/89)
In article <680@srhqla.UUCP> comp-mail-mush@srhqla.uucp writes:
\From: island!maui!argv (Dan Heller)
\> On Jun 6, 3:59pm, Arnold D. Robbins wrote:
\
\> feature to move student mailboxes
\> into their home directories which are exported via NFS to a bunch of
\> A/UX (ugh) mac-ii's.
\>
\You could always move mush to _mush and then have the "mush" binary be a
\shell script which reads:
\
\ exec _mush -m $MAIL $*
Alternatively, let the students use a copy of mush compiled with HOMEMAIL
defined. The HOMEMAIL support appears to work quite well WITHOUT MMDF
defined. I use HOMEMAIL on this one machine one disk uucp-only/smail system
with no problems. (why HOMEMAIL in the first place is another story..:-)