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From: jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II)
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Subject: Re: Elm on AIX PS/2
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Date: 11 Mar 91 23:03:46 GMT
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In article <1991Mar11.194049.11696@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lance@lances.aiss.uiuc.edu (C Lance Moxley) writes:
>Now, does anyone know how to resolve the problem that elm
>wants to use /usr/spool/mail/userid and AIX puts the mail
>in $HOME/.newmail?

Sure, export "MAIL=/$HOME/.newmail".  Elm will snoop about
the environment and use that value if it exists.
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