From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fred Chu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing the variable "rmail-file-name" doesnot work. Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:10:56 +0800 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87acdxvaxb.fsf@163.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137337896 10622 80.91.229.2 (15 Jan 2006 15:11:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:11:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 15 16:11:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ey9XS-0002Xm-DF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:11:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ey9Ri-0006kG-OB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:05:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.banetele.no!dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FCvyI751BOjMW9UqutXDEla36x0= Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.181.135.131 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=VZG^jV>UccA8R0DbUO1OnVI Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137044 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32665 Archived-At: Qiang 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 -------------------- (setq rmail-file-name "~/.rmail") (setq diary-file "~/.diary") -------------------- to ~/.emacs and "M-x byte-compile-file" it , it works good. -- Fred Chu Post by Gnus with Emacs