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From: gshapiro@wpi.wpi.edu (Gregory N. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Rmail
Message-ID: <5707@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 89 23:48:56 GMT
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Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.
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In-reply-to: jayaprak@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu's message of 17 Nov 89 17:48:53 GMT


>>>>> On 17 Nov 89 17:48:53 GMT, jayaprak@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jayaprakash Krishnamoorthy) said:


jayaprak> Is there any way to have the RMAIL file located in a directory other
jayaprak> than the HOME directory? Looks like the path is hardcoded in the
jayaprak> variable rmail-file-name. Thanks in advance. 

Here is the syntax:

(setq rmail-file-name (expand-file-name "~/.rmail"))

Put the path inside the quotes (which are necessary)

					Greg

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