Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!otc.otca.oz.au!grahamd From: grahamd@otc.otca.oz.au (Graham Dumpleton) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Why isn't ATK more widely used? Message-ID: Date: 1 Aug 90 04:48:52 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 54 Excerpts from info-andrew: 31-Jul-90 Re: Why isn't ATK more wide.. Nathaniel Borenstein@thu (1307+0) > 1. Install my "eatmail" program, which simply transfers mail from > /usr/spool/mail/nsb into separate files in your Mailbox directory. I > sent this to the ITC, but I don't know if they're putting it in a patch > or not. If not, I can send you a copy privately. It doesn't use > dynamic loading, etc., and hence should be pretty easy to compile > anywhere. We have the Rand Message Handling System (more commonly known as just MH) running on our machines and their inc program does essentially the same thing as eatmail. > 2. Set up your sites AndrewSetup file with a line like the following: > AMS_MailCollectionCommand: rsh your-mail-mainframe /full/path/to/eatmail We just then have AMS_MailCollectionCommand: inc in the AndrewSetup file. If you also run popd then this will even work if you are logged into a machine which is not your maildrop machine. One last thing which we have to do to get this all to work is the following cd ~ ln -s .Mail/inbox Mailbox where .Mail is the directory where MH puts your mail. This is usually Mail but can be redefined in your .mh_profile as we have; ie: we have the following in our .mh_profile Path: .Mail Also we have a number of users who in general prefer to use MH most of the time (NOTE: they will not use cui), and so rather than do as mentioned above; which would result in all mail dissappearing into Andrew, we do the following: folder +mmm # creates new folder in MH cd ~ ln -s .Mail/mmm Mailbox This way, when they get some multimedia mail they can refile it into the mmm folder and then run messages. Graham Dumpleton. (grahamd@otc.otca.oz.au)