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From: mcgill-vision!iros1!pinard@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Francois Pinard)
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Subject: rmail.el should obey bash's MAILPATH
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Date: 26 Dec 89 16:00:26 GMT
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In GNU Emacs 18.54.2 of Fri May 12 1989 on ouareau (berkeley-unix)

When rmail-primary-inbox-list is nil, rmail.el(rmail) dynamically
constructs it using rmail-spool-directory, then $LOGNAME or $USER.
Under bash, the user inbox is described by $MAILPATH.  I believe rmail
should first check for the existence of $MAILPATH first.

It would also be nice if, rmail-spool-directory being preset to nil,
rmail.el(rmail-insert-inbox-text) was able to deduce it dynamically
first using $MAILPATH or as per in paths.el.

On this site, primary inbox names depend upon the NFS location of the
home directory.  So, the value of rmail-spool-directory cannot be made
unique for all users in paths.el.  If one manages to have MAILPATH
properly set, everything else should ideally fall in place.

-- 
Franc,ois Pinard                                    pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
(514) 588-4656           ``Vivement GNU!''          ...!uunet!iros1!pinard