LOCAL MODIFICATIONS REGARDING THE LOCATION OF THE FILE CONTAINING NEW MAIL

All supported mail programs on the ACS cluster, such as Elm, UNIX mail, Pine, Rmail, Eudora (running on a personal computer and accessing mail through the ACS POP server), xbiff, etc., use an environment variable to determine the current location of the file containing new mail for a particular account.

If you use one of your own programs to check or read mail and that program cannot find your new mail, you will need to modify the program to use one of the following environment variables, rather than an explicit filename, to find the current location of the file containing your new mail: 

  MAIL       or
  MAILBOX
Both these variables are set correctly (to the same value) when you log in to ACS or run a remote command. You can evaluate these variables by typing the following at the ACS system prompt: 
  env MAIL
  env MAILBOX