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Subject: Re: urgent feature request
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Date: 7 Jun 89 00:03:29 GMT
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From: island!maui!argv (Dan Heller)

> On Jun  6,  3:59pm, Arnold D. Robbins wrote:

> On BSD unix, ucbmail will read the file specified by the MAIL environment
> variable. Usually this is /usr/spool/mail/<user>, but it does not have
> to be.  We are taking advantage of this feature to move student mailboxes
> into their home directories which are exported via NFS to a bunch of
> A/UX (ugh) mac-ii's.
> 
> I am having trouble putting this into mush 6.5 pl 3, even though the changes
> are "straightforward".  Mush *always* reads the system spool file, even
> if MAIL is set to something different.

You could always move mush to _mush and then have the "mush" binary be a
shell script which reads:

    exec _mush -m $MAIL $*

if the user gives a -m flag on his own, it'll override the one specified here.

It sounds like a reasonable thing to do since it seems to be a frequently
requested feature.

  --dan