Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Problems with using AMS_MailCollectionCommand Message-ID: Date: 10 Sep 90 14:08:11 GMT References: <105873@convex.convex.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 22 Well, I can see arguments for having it either way. But certainly your desire to not have it read from /usr/spool/mail/xxx is reasonable in the circumstances, and there should at least be a way to do it. Is there anyone out there who would be unhappy if the existence of a configured mail collection command meant that the automatic checking of /usr/spool/mail/xxx was turned off? BTW, the reason there's a personal mail collection command is that sometimes it makes sense for individuals to be able to customize this behavior. AMS_MailCollectionCommand, set in AndrewSetup, affects the whole site, while PersonalMailCollectionCommand is user-specific. The latter turns out to have been useful for some people at Bellcore who receive mail on one machine and read it on a workstation, because this is not the "universal" situation at Bellcore. (There is NO universal situation at Bellcore; we have the most fragmented system I've ever imagined...) Anyway, at the very least there should be an option to NOT check /usr/spool/mail/XXX to improve your situation, and possibly it should never be checked when one of the two mail collection commands is set. I have no strong opinion on that one, but other people might. -- Nathaniel