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From: dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Gnu 18.51 Question re: rmail-primary-inbox-list
Keywords: What is its binding supposed to be?
Message-ID: <19304@beta.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 19:52:18 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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After building Gnu 18.51, I noticed that rmail-primary-inbox-list was
bound to nil. Previously, in version 18.49 it was bound to
("/usr/spool/mail/$USER" "~/mbox"). 

The comment at the top of rmail.el says:
; these variables now declared in loaddefs or paths.el

paths.el does not contain rmail-primary-inbox-list, and loaddefs.el
has the following:

(defconst rmail-primary-inbox-list  nil "\
List of files which are inboxes for user's primary mail file ~/RMAIL.
`nil' means the default, which is ("~/mbox" "/usr/spool/mail/$USER")
(the second name varies depending on the operating system).")

which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. 

Can anybody explain?

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Douglas Roberts
Los Alamos National Laboratory
(505)667-4569
dzzr@lanl.gov
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