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From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: does elm 2.3 support home directory mailboxes?
Message-ID: <1990Jun3.052321.14325@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US>
Date: 3 Jun 90 05:23:21 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.095754.28633@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
Reply-To: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
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In article <1990Jun1.095754.28633@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> celvin@arda.ee.surrey.ac.uk (Chris Elvin) writes:
>The subject says it all really.  I've got elm 2.2 (pl 12) which supports
>mailboxes which live in a users home directory rather than in /var/spool/mail
>Does elm 2.3 allow such a scheme?

Yes and no.  The configuration asks the name of the mail spool
directory, but that can be overridden on a particular invokation of ELM
with the MAIL environmental variable, which ELM takes to be the user's
mail spool file.  So, theoretically (or should I say "klugedly"?), the
answer is "yes": configure ELM with some or other directory but have
each user have MAIL set appropriately, e.g.  in /etc/profile or
/etc/login.
-- 
Rob Bernardo, Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US
phone: (415) 827-4301