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From: jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Mail drop path for mode line
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Date: 26 Feb 88 19:55:29 GMT
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I didn't see all the notes leading up to this message, but...

If you are trying to get the display due to (display-time) to be
correct, you have to set the environment variable MAIL right so that
emacs/etc/loadst will look in the right location.  This has to be done
before invoking emacs, since emacs by default (sites can change this)
can't modify envariables for its children or itself.  For MH/MMDF
mail, I have in my .cshrc:

  setenv MAIL ~/mailbox

/jr
jr@bbn.com or jr@bbn.uucp