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Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> The only monkey wrench here was that I couldn't find `movemail'  Its
> nowhere in my path, which is very extensive.

When you do `ssh $host $command', no environment is set on the remote
host.  In particular, /etc/profile and ~/.profile are not read, since
it's not a login shell.

There is a file ~/.ssh/environment or somesuch which gets executed,
see the ssh documentation for details.

> The cool thing is someone already wrote almost the exact script in 
> gnus info at Mail Source Specifiers.
> 
>         (setq mail-sources
>                 '((file :prescript "ssh reader@reader ~/scripts/getmail >%t ")))
> 
> What does the specifier "t" do here?  Does just mean to the default?

The mail-sources stuff writes the mail to a tmp file, maybe
~/.mail-source-crashbox or ~/Mail/Incoming*.  Since your script does
not know the tmp file name, mail-sources provides it.  If you put %t
into the command name, that's replaced by the tmp file name.

kai
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