From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to read mail from local spool?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 10:50:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871q8wq2ur.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13614.9973188125$1709115669@news.gmane.org>
On Wednesday, 28 Feb 2024 at 12:20, Björn Bidar wrote:
> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> (setq mail-sources '((file :path "/var/mail/userid")))
>
> Better would be:
> (setq mail-sources `,((file :path ,(concat "/var/mail/"(user-login-name)))))
Better in the sense of most generic/universal, I guess. Maybe that is
what should be in the manual!
Thank you,
eric
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Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2024-02-26) on Debian bullseye/sid
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