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From: ghoti+@andrew.cmu.edu (Adam Stoller)
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Subject: Re: console mail icon and RS6000s
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Date: 22 Feb 91 13:23:20 GMT
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 21-Feb-91 console mail icon and
RS6000s Pat Wilson@ucbvax.Berkel (795)

> (I've also run into problems with the "mail icon" (really mailmonf) and
> /bin/ksh - looks to me that "$mail" must be defined, but if "$MAIL" is
> defined (even if it's to the same thing!), CheckDir gets confused and
> starts sqwaking about /usr/spool/mail/{$USER} not being a directory
> (which it's not).  Haven't figured out _why_ this is happening, just how
> to fix it.)

Yes - it looks for the environment variable "MAIL" (not "mail") - but
that's not the only thing.

Look in your AndrewSetup file - in order for Console to expect mail to
be delivered as a single file (rather than separate files in a
directory) you need to have the following line in your AndrewSetup:

AMS_NonAMSDelivery: yes
(or: true, or: 1)

Actually - the above line should only be needed if AMS_DELIVERY_ENV was
set on when you built the software - from what I can tell looking at the
source - if AMS_DELIVERY_ENV is not defined, it will initialize the
variable UseNonAndrewMail to TRUE  - and then iff AMS_NonAMSDelivery is
set (either way) in the AndrewSetup file, it will attempt to
re-initialize UseNonAndrewMail.  If set as above, UseNonAndrewMail will
[again] be set to TRUE, otherwise FALSE.

However, if that line isn't in the AndrewSetup file at all - it should
continue to use the initial setting of UseNonAndrewMail

Sigh - this is pretty confusing to write about - the code in question is
in atk/console/cmd/mailmon.c.  Check near the top of the file and in the
functions InitMail(), and SetMailEnv()

Hope that helps.

--fish


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