Russ Allbery: > Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> A look at the man page doesn't show a variable for the mailbox location. >> It appears that it's compiled in. It does, however, accept a command >> line switch to the mailbox. > elm uses $MAIL. >> Things could have changed, this man page is for an older version of elm >> on hpux9 (ver 70.85). > Ew. The "contrib" software shipped with HP-UX 9 was something like two > years old when they shipped it. > -- > Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> Elm 2.4 PL25 does indeed support $MAIL. There is another snag, though. Elm 2.4 PL25 creates a temporary file named /tmp/$MAIL. It bails out if there is already a file with that name, meaning that if you set $MAIL to "Mailbox" i.e., only one user at a time can read mail ... -- Joerg Lenneis email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
