Subject: Pine defaults and sendmail (again)

From: "Christopher \"AWOL\" Curtis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 19:43:26 -0400 (EDT)

I beleive I sent this message out once before but I have gotten no 
responses, so I am reposting.

We have some users who subscribe to listservers and get lots of mail.  We 
have aliased these people's incoming mail folders to their home 
directories and set the MAIL variable to point to that file.  This 
variable is documented in the sendmail (mail/Mail) documentation, but 
apparently is ignored by PINE.  What we currently have to do is for 
people who want to use PINE is to manually edit the .pinerc file to point 
to that file, which is an unneeded nuicance.  Can PINE be written to use 
the MAIL variable or is it already?  How do we implement such a system?

Also, the other thing I forgot to mention is that MAIL isn't set for all 
users, just those with non-standard mailboxes so the mail program can 
find it.  If we put incoming-messages=$MAIL in the .pinerc file when MAIL 
is undefined, will PINE still use the system mailbox?

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 11:15:42 -0700 (PDT)

Chris,

Try setting "inbox-path=$MAIL" in /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.  This should work
as long as the file exists.  If your MTA or other mail program deletes an
empty INBOX, you will get an error you would not get with inbox-path blank,
but other than that you should be OK.  I haven't exhaustively checked that
unset environment variables are handled properly by all systems, but they
should just expand to NULL, which is fine for Pine... 

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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