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From: pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Suggestions for next Elm release
Keywords: elm -u user, better elm/readmsg integration
Message-ID: <27934@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 89 23:41:36 GMT
References: <68093@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-To: pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <68093@uunet.UU.NET> asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan) writes:
>How about adding a -u <user> flag to elm?  This would start up elm to
>read the user's mailbox (assuming permissions to do so).
>
>I su to root all the time to read the postmaster mail and have to do a
>	elm -f /usr/spool/mail/root
>all of the time.  It gets to be a lot of typing.

I second this request. I use this as well to read another mailbox
all day long. A -u option would really be nice.

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Paul M. Moriarty        pmm@mips.com          {ames,decwrl}!mips!pmm 
Computer Center SysAdmin
MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.