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Re: Changing the variable "rmail-file-name" doesnot work.


From: Fred Chu
Subject: Re: Changing the variable "rmail-file-name" doesnot work.
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:10:56 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

Qiang <linux.liuqiang@163.com> writes:

> Hello,
> I want to use rmail to handler with my mails,
> and I don't want there exists one file named RMAIL in my home directory.
> So, I changed the variable "rmail-file-name"'s value.
> (setq rmail-file-name "~/.emacsd/.Rmail")
>
> I executed it, but it had no changes.
>
> How should I do?
>
>
>

Did you delete the old "RMAIL"?

I put
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(setq rmail-file-name "~/.rmail")

(setq diary-file "~/.diary")
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to ~/.emacs and "M-x byte-compile-file" it , it works good.
-- 
Fred Chu
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