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mic...@pbinfo.uucp

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Nov 4, 1986, 1:25:00 PM11/4/86
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Can anybody explain me, why GNU Emacs (17.64)
cannot read in my 'rmail-inbox-list' on a Pyramid?

I am in the 'ucb'-universe and the value of this
variable is set to the (I think) correct values
("~/mbox" "/usr/spool/mail/$USER").

Michael

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John Robinson

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Nov 8, 1986, 2:32:15 PM11/8/86
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I was mystified by something like this until I realized that certain
filespecs have to be interpreted by sh (not csh or unix-emacs);
perhaps you should expend the "~" to (the value of) $HOME.

/jr

Mike Clarkson

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Nov 9, 1986, 11:43:13 PM11/9/86
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Rmail reads your incoming mailbox (from the files in rmail-inbox-list)
by calling rmail-insert-inbox-text. This in turn uses the `c' program
movemail which is in ./gnuemacs/etc/ to copy the mail from your mailbox
to a temporary file ~/.newmail

(call-process
(expand-file-name "movemail" exec-directory)
nil nil nil file tofile)

It uses movemail so that Emacs can read the mail file without conflicting
with someone else who may be accessing /usr/spool/mail/$USER ($MAIL on
most Un*x systems) at the same time (sending you mail). If movemail
doesn't work, nor will rmail-insert-inbox-text.

Make sure movemail works first. Try

% movemail $MAIL ~/.newmail

first to make sure it works. movemail should move the contents of $MAIL
to ~/.newmail. If your system supports file locking, $MAIL should be
empty (0 bytes), and all of your mail should be in ~/.newmail. If this
doesn't work, fix it and Rmail should work.

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