Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Suggestions for next Elm release
Keywords: elm -u user, better elm/readmsg integration
Message-ID: <251A94F1.12570@ateng.com>
Date: 22 Sep 89 20:24:16 GMT
References: <68093@uunet.UU.NET>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan):
>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).

Don't hack elm, write a shell script:


	: elmu
	# Shell script to read mail belonging to given user

	u="$1"
	shift

	m="/usr/spool/mail/$u"

	if [ ! -s $m ]
	then
	    echo "No mail for $u"
	    exit 1
	fi

	if [ ! -r $m ]
	then
	    echo "Can't read $u's mail"
	    exit 1
	fi

	elm -f $m ${1+"$@"}


Like, Elm is big enough already.
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