Subject: Re: does mbox driver work in 3.90

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 15:33:18 -0700

Mail is only pulled into ~/mbox if the file already exists, i.e. you need to
"touch ~/mbox" or some similar... 

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On 5 Oct 1994, Jeff Scarborough wrote:

> Date: 5 OCT 1994 18:23:38 GMT 
> From: Jeff Scarborough <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: does mbox driver work in 3.90 
> 
> 
> According to the faq you can force all new mail to be pulled into ~/mbox
> by linking in the "mbox" driver when you build pine.  I executed the 
> following:
> 
> 	./build EXTRADRIVERS=mbox a32
> 
> It seems to have added the mboxdriver to linkage.[ch] and it built fine,
> but it seems to have had no effect.  Mail does not get pulled into ~/mbox
> ever.  Am I missing a step?  Does it even work?
> 
> --
> Jeff Scarborough              [email-masked]
> University of Colorado        Computing & Network Services
> Campus Box 455                Boulder, Colorado 80309-0455
> 
>

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 20:08:47 -0700

There is a bug in the mbox driver of 3.90 that *empty* ~/mbox files are 
ignored.  As a workaround, put a single message into it and it will start 
working.

The fix is in the latest IMAP toolkit on ftp.cac.washington.edu, file 
mail/imap.tar.Z, and will also be in Pine 3.91 which is coming soon!!!!

-- Mark --

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Scarborough)
Date: 5 Oct 1994 18:23:38 GMT

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 09:02:20 +0100

And if you're not afraid of getting your hands dirty by touching the 
source code you can even make the mbox driver create the "mbox" file if 
it doesn't already exist :-)

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