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From: shirono@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (Roberto Shironoshita)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Help with RMAIL
Message-ID: <3515@super.upenn.edu>
Date: 29 Feb 88 00:14:59 GMT
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Keywords: in-box, parsing reply

In article <254@occrsh.ATT.COM> jal@occrsh.UUCP (J_Allen_Schones) writes:
>RMAIL will not read any mail in my system mailbox.  I "fixed" this
>with the following shell script:

[a shell script which copies /usr/mail/$LOGNAME to $HOME/.newmail]
[and exec's emacs -f rmail]

>I tried to fix it with:
>	"M-x set-rmail-inbox-list<RET>/usr/mail/jal<RET>"
>but it didn't work.  What am I missing?

What you really want to do is put the following in $HOME/.emacs:

(setq rmail-primary-inbox-list (list "/usr/mail/jal"))

>Problem #2:
>
>If I attempt to (r)eply to a message that was forwarded by uucp (i.e.
>sent from remote!remote!user), I will send the message (unless I fix
>it) to "uucp".  Any fix?

I can't help you there.  The machines I work on don't run uucp.

                                  Roberto Shironoshita
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