Information about the JED rmail reader. JED is able to read mail with proper file locking as long as the system mail spool directory is writable. That is, /usr/spool/mail should be writable (some systems use /var/spol/mail). This requirement is fulfilled for most systems. To install rmail, you must first create the executable `getmail'. After building JED, simply type `make getmail'. Move the resulting executable to JED_LIBRARY. Add the following to your .jedrc file: autoload ("rmail", "rmail"); add_completion("rmail"); Mail is moved (with locking) from the spool directory to a directory $HOME/Mail. This directory is created if it does not exist. JED will then parse the new mail and moved individual messages to the directory $HOME/Mail/NewMail. Future versions will compress the new mail. JED then parses the headers of the new mail and creates a file called $HOME/NewMail.index. JED uses this index to manage files in the NewMail folder. Similar statements apply to new folders. JED will then show a window containing the index. It may look like: 4 12-Dec R Darrel R Hankerson