Subject: move mail spool file to home directory

From: Johnny Kwan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 13:01:14 -0600

On our network the users' incoming mail is spooled in /var/spool/mail
which is NFS mounted on all client hosts. To reduce the mail server
load, we would like to move the user's mail spool file to the user's
home directory when the user invokes pine. I set up the mail_link with
the mbox driver in building pine. But it still doesn't do what we
want. Anyone knows how to accomplish that?

Johnny Kwan
Office of Telecommunication Services
University of Texas System
[email-masked]

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From: VampLestat <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 11:50:37 -0800 (GMT-0800)

> want. Anyone knows how to accomplish that?

The must have an existing ~/mbox before pine will start moving over the
mail.  I accomplished this by creating an empty ~/mbox for every user with
a .pinerc file and then adding an empty one to the default skeleton given
to new accounts. 

_O_  Ryan L. Watkins                                     [email-masked]
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