Subject: Unix INBOX

From: Steven Feinholz <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 95 11:43:13 PST

On Unix, the receiving system mailbox is located at

   /var/spool/mail/<userid>

and Unix Pine calls this folder INBOX. On Unix (or
maybe specific to Sun workstation's 'mailtool'), there
is a default mailbox called 'inbox' which is a local
folder in which to move the email.

Within Pine, every mail folder is case-sensitive except
for the INBOX folder. This makes it impossible to move
my email from the system folder to my local 'inbox'
folder.

For clarification: at work I use Sun workstations which
use the X-Window 'mailtool'. When I work from home using
the PC to dial in, I use Pine.

Is there any way that Pine can switch from a case-insensitive
INBOX to something else (maybe even something that the user
can set in the configuration file)?

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 21:32:01 -0800

The answer is no, you can't.  The definition of INBOX actually comes from 
IMAP, and is specifically case-insensitive.

However, you can access a file named inbox, by prefixing it with some 
sort of directory specifier, e.g. ~/inbox, ~/mail/inbox, etc.

-- Mark --