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From: ronald@ibmpcug.co.uk (Ronald Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: urgent feature request
Summary: Why not HOMEMAIL ?
Message-ID: <10900@ibmpcug.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 12:49:10 GMT
References: <680@srhqla.UUCP>
Sender: ronald@ibmpcug.UUCP
Reply-To: ronald@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Ronald Khoo)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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Cc: argv@island.uucp, arnold@emoryu1.bitnet
To: arnold@emoryu1.bitnet

In article <680@srhqla.UUCP> comp-mail-mush@srhqla.uucp writes:
\From: island!maui!argv (Dan Heller)
\> On Jun  6,  3:59pm, Arnold D. Robbins wrote:
\
\>                                         feature to move student mailboxes
\> into their home directories which are exported via NFS to a bunch of
\> A/UX (ugh) mac-ii's.
\> 
\You could always move mush to _mush and then have the "mush" binary be a
\shell script which reads:
\
\    exec _mush -m $MAIL $*

Alternatively, let the students use a copy of mush compiled with HOMEMAIL
defined.  The HOMEMAIL support appears to work quite well WITHOUT MMDF
defined.  I use HOMEMAIL on this one machine one disk uucp-only/smail system
with no problems.  (why HOMEMAIL in the first place is another story..:-)