Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Suggestions for next Elm release
Keywords: elm -u user, better elm/readmsg integration
Message-ID: <893@becker.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 11:06:53 GMT
References: <68093@uunet.UU.NET> <27934@winchester.mips.COM>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
Lines: 23

In article <27934@winchester.mips.COM> pmm@mips.COM (Paul M. Moriarty) writes:
|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.

	Agreed, and it is likely pretty easy.
	The "-u <user>" option is pretty much
	the same as "-f MAILSPOOL/<user>", so
	it isn't too hard to add, methinks...

Cheers,
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