Re: [LI] emacs and mailer

[Syed Khader Vali <sidgeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 09:06:22AM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> > Is there any way I can make it use *only* /var/spool/mail/username rather
> > than emacs cleaning up /var/spool/mail/username and saving it in ~/RMAILER ??
> > Mutt simply reads /var/spool/mail/username and modifies it as necessary !!
> > I want that functionality in emacs also. Anybody knows how I do that ??
> > I am sure it must be possible !! Right ??
> emacs has many mailers. rmail is just one of them and rmail has its own
> file format, because it believes that the berkely mbox format is
> inefficient.
> In order to keep your mbox intact, use vm or gnus as your mailer.

Got it !!
Now what do I need to put in ~/.vm to make it use only /var/spool/mail/sidgeek
and not save it in INBOX ?? yes *INBOX* rmailer used to store it in RMAILER. vm
stores it in INBOX now ;-)
TIA
Regards
	Khader

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