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From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mail problems
Date: 7 Jan 1997 21:00:34 GMT
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Kent L Squires (ksquires@psycfrnd.interaccess.com) wrote:
: Ok, I installed 'elm' a while back and it's not able to read the mailbox.
: If I use 'mail', I can read mail, but not with elm. I noticed that with
: 'mail' it'susing /var/mail/$USER, and with elm it's using
: /var/spool/mail/$USER. How can I get 'elm' to read the mailbox?
Well, as root you could be sleazy and create symbolic links in your
spooling directory. OR you could re-build elm for the correct spooling
directory.
Best yet, tho. If you run elm -f /var/spool/mail/username, elm will
look for the file listed after -f. You might want to create an alias
from elm to 'elm -f /dir/file'
HTH
--
Nate [nvp@shore.net||nvp@nfic.com]
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