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Re: Incoming mailbox

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From: Syd Weinstein
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 04:25
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jawil@hpx13.aid.no (Jan Roger Wilkens) writes:
>My incoming mailbox isn't /usr/mail/jawil but:
>/vhe/hpx5/users/dt92/jawil/mail/inbox 
>How do I get ELM to read this as the inbox? At the moment I'm using the -f
>flag at startup-time to change mailbox, but then I can't see what mail is New
>etc..

Use the MAIL environment variable in your .login/.profile, Elm honors it.

>Another question:
>How do I format the printing of the aliases in the alias screen?
>At the moment it is:

>     1   Bent Tranberg                                                Person    Bent
>     2   Bjarne Lien                                                  Person    Bjarne

>If I want to, for example, list the alias first, then the name, then the
>comment, what do I do?

Change the code.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP          Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL20
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                 Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd      Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
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Subject: Re: Incoming mailbox
Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:25:50 -0500
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
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