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From: pjnesser@fenchurch.mit.edu (Philip John Nesser)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Rmail
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.180533.24357@eddie.mit.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 89 18:05:33 GMT
References: <1976@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: pjnesser@fenchurch.mit.edu (Philip John Nesser)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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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