Subject: Alternate INBOX Path Probs.

From: [email-masked] (Jeff Skone)
Date: 28 Oct 1994 00:37:07 GMT

If you setup your inbox to be anything other than the default
'/usr/spool/mail/$USER' how do you get PINE to prompt you about new mail
upon login? 

Ordinarily, it'll say "You have mail." when you connect to the host. It 
doesn't do this anymore if you change your mail path--even when you make 
the change to .pinerc!

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Davis)
Date: 27 Oct 1994 18:12:34 -0700

In article <[email-masked]>,
Jeff Skone <[email-masked]> wrote:
:If you setup your inbox to be anything other than the default
:'/usr/spool/mail/$USER' how do you get PINE to prompt you about new mail
:upon login? 

If you're thinking of the 'you have new mail' message when you login,
that's done by the login program itself, not pine.  Typically the
login program has the 'standard' mailbox name hardwired into the
executable.

Some shells have a MAILPATH environment variable that might give you
the functionality you're looking for.