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Article #931Re: urgent feature request
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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1989 00:03
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1989 00:03
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!bloom-beacon!usc!csun!srhqla!uucp From: comp-mail-mush@srhqla.uucp Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: urgent feature request Message-ID: <680@srhqla.UUCP> Date: 7 Jun 89 00:03:29 GMT Sender: uucp@srhqla.UUCP Lines: 25