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From: heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: does elm 2.3 support home directory mailboxes?
Message-ID: <1386@sud509.ed.ray.com>
Date: 7 Jun 90 16:42:57 GMT
References: <1990Jun1.095754.28633@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
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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
>

I used Elm 2.2 and now have Elm 2.3;  I'm running this on a Sun/386i
which uses mail "inboxes" in ~/mail/inbox.  It is working just fine.

In my .login, I define 

setenv MAIL ~/mail/inbox



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