Subject: Inbox

From: Francis Ho <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 15:57:38 +0800 (GMT+0800)

I'm running solaris2.3 on a spar10.  I'm using pine3.89.  I'm trying 
to default users' incoming mails to their home directory ie 
/home/username instead of /var/mail/username

Must I change something in pine or in my sendmail or my MAIL setting?

Could some unix gurus out there please help??  Thanks!!

[email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 10:05:58 -0700 (PDT)

>From the upcoming FAQ:

How do I configure Pine to not leave mail in /usr/spool/mail?

You have several options:

 1. Leave inbox in /usr/spool/mail, but turn on the Pine option to prompt
users to move read messages to a folder in their home directory upon exiting
Pine. 

 2. Modify your mail delivery program to deliver mail directly into the
user's home directory, and specify that inbox-path in your global pine.conf
(See the "tmail" program on ftp.cac.washington.edu for an example.)

 3. "touch mail.TxT" in each home directory, which will cause Pine (upon
startup) to pull mail from /usr/spool/mail into ~/mail.TxT -- however,
mail.TxT will be a Tenex-format, rather than Berkeley mail format folder
(faster, but non-standard). 

 4. Link in the "mbox" driver when you build Pine. This driver will (upon
Pine startup) pull mail from /usr/spool/mail into ~/mbox, which will be a
Bky-format folder. 

--DLM

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From: Klaus Zeuge <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 08:55:46 +0200

>Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 10:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
>From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>

>(faster, but non-standard). 

This looks a bit like the old GNU-emacs RMAIL problem, where innocent
but curios users suddenly have their email messages spread out in
several different and incompatible mailfiles. For GNU-emacs, there is
unrmail (use archie to look for unrmail.el if you want it) to take a
RMAIL file and build a UNIX Berkeley formated mail file. Is there some
program which takes a Tenex mail.TxT file and build a UNIX Berkeley
formated mail file?

>Pine startup) pull mail from /usr/spool/mail into ~/mbox, which will be a

This is maybe the most convenient way. Could you please make it easy
to select this in the Makefile?

	/Klaus

PS At the swedish interop last week, Pine seemed to be liked by the
email testing group. The big point of weaknes was Pine's failure to
follow RFC 1522. DS

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 01:06:58 -0700

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Klaus Zeuge writes:
> Is there some

Yes, the mbxcvt program in the mail/ directory on the ftp.cac.washington.edu
server provides mailbox conversion capability between various mailbox formats
supported by c-client.

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 01:10:37 -0700

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> (faster, but non-standard).

This information is slightly obsolete; the correct name is once again mail.txt
in the home directory.

Mail pulling is done *only* if mail.txt is empty or in correct format.