Re: [nmh-workers] I Could Have Sworn that the inc Command used to work.

[Bakul Shah]

On Jun 2, 2019, at 3:15 AM, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Bakul,

Looks like inc pays attention to $MAILDROP and if it is not set and
profile entry MailDrop is not set, it looks into /var/mail/$USER.

That's pretty much right.

Not sure if it ever checks $MAIL or $MAILPATH.

It doesn't, and it doesn't use $USER, or $LOGNAME, either.

Er... that is what the inc man page says!

       If the environment variable $MAILDROP is set, then inc uses it as the

       location of the user's mail drop instead of the default (the -file name

       switch still overrides this, however).  If this environment variable is

       not set, then inc will consult the profile entry "MailDrop" for this

       information.  If the value found is not absolute, then it is

       interpreted relative to the user's nmh directory.  If the value is not

       found, then inc will look in the standard system location for the

       user's mail drop.

...

FILES

       $HOME/.mh_profile   The user's profile.

       /usr/local/etc/nmh/mts.conf

                           mts configuration file.

       /var/mail/$USER     Location of the system mail drop.

But I don't understand why it didn't just follow unix conventions as most users of MH have been on Unix.