[mew-int 00650] Help please - Local mailbox

[George Kahler]

Hi, I have been running mew-1.95b3 on a Sun Ultra with Solaris 7 for
years now and am extremally happy with it. My folders are the old MH
style with one message per file.

Now I am upgrading to Solaris 8 and would like to also upgrade Mew,
however, I seem to run into problem trying to configure it for NOT to
use POP but to use local /var/mail on my machine.

I have down-loaded mew-2.0, figuring out that I'll start slowly since
there were lot of changes between 1.x and 2.0. It compiled and
installed cleanly. I have also installed Emacs 21.1.1. So far no
problems.

I understand that IM is no longer required but to my horror there is
no built in support for Local Mailbox.

Please help what EXACTLY do I need to do ???? I've read the
contrib/00readme but it does not make sense to me.

So far I have tried (I an not a Lisp expert)
;; use local spool
(setq mew-mailbox-type 'mbox)
(setq mew-mbox-command "inc")
(setq mew-mbox-command-arg "-truncate -file /var/mail/george")

but it is not reading my spool !!

Thanks,
George

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