Subject: Re: inbox remote mail server

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 13:28:04 -0800

inbox-path={werple.apana.org.au}

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On 31 Oct 1994, Nick Allan wrote:

> Date: 31 OCT 1994 18:11:41 +1100 
> From: Nick Allan <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: inbox remote mail server 
> 
> Hello everyone
> 
> I connect to the site that holds my email via a slip connection, this 
> connection is dialup.
> I would like pine on my home system to use the inbox on the mail system.
> I know you are supposed to use the in-box-path in your .pinerc file but 
> can someone tell me what the format of this is supposed to look like
> eg the host is werple.apana.org.au and my mail file on this host is 
> /var/mail/guardian
> 
> Thanks for any assistance.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards Nick
> 
> [email-masked]
> 
> 
>

---

From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 10:24:17 -0800 (PST)

> inbox-path={werple.apana.org.au}

This will *usually* work, but there are some cases where omitting the 
special name "inbox" after the host specification will cause problems,
so it is safer to say:

  inbox-path={werple.apana.org.au}inbox

-teg