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Mail with temporary home directory (was Re: Missing from xlogin package)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Thu Mar 3 17:40:46 1994

From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 14:40:17 -0800
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU

I guess the way that's handled at MIT is the .mh_profile with
inc: -notruncate.  We're thinking about instead setting some environment
variable to indicate the home directory is temporary, so that a variety of
mail clients have a uniform way of checking for that.  How does that sound
to you?

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