Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!TRANSARC.COM!Craig_Everhart From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Problems with using AMS_MailCollectionCommand Message-ID: Date: 10 Sep 90 18:38:01 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 One way you can turn off AMS"s processing of /usr/spool/mail/datri without recompiling is to redefine AMS_MailBoxPrefix in your ...../AndrewSetup to be something other than /usr/spool/mail. If you define it as, say, /tmp/dogs, then AMS's efforts to incorporate the messages in /tmp/dogs/datri will come to nothing. (Or, for that matter, change the MAIL environment variable to be other than /usr/spool/mail/datri--but if that env vbl is used elsewhere and you set it elsewhere, you might screw up some other program like xbiff.) You can do a lot with AndrewSetup. But yes, I'd agree that a personal (or site-wide) mail-collection command should probably override the /usr/spool/mail conversion thingy. In addition, if the current stuff that reads from /usr/spool/mail/userid can be improved, wouldn't that be a good idea too? Craig