From 458fb8b26beed40c22488cb3f837c96c4bc80c4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Schroeder Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:30:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (rmail-inbox-alist): Doc. --- lisp/mail/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ lisp/mail/rmail.el | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/mail/ChangeLog b/lisp/mail/ChangeLog index 442775761e7..ea071ac7d0a 100644 --- a/lisp/mail/ChangeLog +++ b/lisp/mail/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2006-01-20 Alex Schroeder + + * rmail.el (rmail-inbox-alist): Doc. + 2006-01-20 Henrik Enberg * rmailsum.el (rmail-summary-get-sender): New function. diff --git a/lisp/mail/rmail.el b/lisp/mail/rmail.el index b1d5cee830e..98865e43621 100644 --- a/lisp/mail/rmail.el +++ b/lisp/mail/rmail.el @@ -358,8 +358,14 @@ and the value of the environment variable MAIL overrides it)." ;;;###autoload (defcustom rmail-inbox-alist nil "*Alist of mail files and backup directory names. -Each element looks like (MAIL-FILE . INBOX-LIST). Mail files with -names matching MAIL-FILE will retrieve mail from files in INBOX-LIST." +Each element has the form (MAIL-FILE INBOX ...). When running +rmail on MAIL-FILE, mails in all the INBOX files listed will be +moved to the MAIL-FILE. Be sure to fully qualify your MAIL-FILE. + +Example setting if procmail delivers all your spam to +~/Mail/SPAM.in and you read it from the file ~/Mail/SPAM: + +\(setq rmail-inbox-alist '((\"~/Mail/SPAM\" \"~/Mail/SPAM.in\")))" :type '(alist :key-type file :value-type (repeat file)) :group 'rmail-retrieve :group 'rmail-files) -- 2.39.5