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From: c60b-4ag@e260-3c.berkeley.edu (Andrew Solovay)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Using RMAIL in Emacs
Summary: I need to change where the temporary files are written
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Date: 11 Sep 90 19:37:51 GMT
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Reply-To: c60b-4ag@e260-3c (Andrew Solovay)
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When I try to run RMAIL in EMacs on my system (UC Berkeley's WEB), I
can't load my new mail.  My mail is kept in the directory
"/usr/spool/mail/".  When RMAIL tries to load the mail, the minibuffer
shows the message, 

'movemail: Permission denied for temporary file "/usr/spool/mail/Ea00872" '.

Clearly, RMAIL is trying to write its tempfiles in the directory that
has my mail spool, which is a directory in which I am not priveleged
to write.  How can I adjust Emacs so that it will write its temporary
files in my home directory?  Alternately, how can I instruct Emacs to
read my mail files from a different location?  (I can just copy my
mail spool to my home directory each time, then have Emacs run RMAIL
on the new file, if I can tell it how to load my new mail from that
location.)


Thanks very much.

--Andrew Solovay