Variable: rmail-primary-inbox-list

rmail-primary-inbox-list is a customizable variable defined in rmail.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

List of files that are inboxes for your primary mail file rmail-file-name.

If this is nil, uses the environment variable MAIL. If that is unset, uses a file named by the function user-login-name(var)/user-login-name(fun) in the directory rmail-spool-directory (whose value depends on the operating system). For example, "/var/mail/USER".

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mail/rmail.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defcustom rmail-primary-inbox-list nil
  "List of files that are inboxes for your primary mail file `rmail-file-name'.
If this is nil, uses the environment variable MAIL.  If that is
unset, uses a file named by the function `user-login-name' in the
directory `rmail-spool-directory' (whose value depends on the
operating system).  For example, \"/var/mail/USER\"."
  ;; Don't use backquote here, because we don't want to need it at load time.
  ;; (That must be an old comment - it's dumped these days.)
  :type (list 'choice '(const :tag "Default" nil)
	      (list 'repeat ':value (list (or (getenv "MAIL")
					      (concat rmail-spool-directory
						      (user-login-name))))
		    'file))
  :group 'rmail-retrieve
  :group 'rmail-files)