Subject: Re: Mailbox format for /usr/spool/mail/????????

From: [email-masked] (Paul Robinson)
Date: 14 May 1995 17:55:47 GMT

Cyrille Lefevre ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Paul Robinson) writes:

: & On a unix system, I believe the standard mailbox name for each user is as 
: & specified above, with ? replaced by the user's login name.  I'd like to 
: & know if there is a standard document describing how those mailbox files 
: & are defined so I can read Unix mailboxes on a PC.  

: 	try the pop protocol, I think pine can use this protocol.

But I can't use POP on my system.  That's an extra cost option

: 	pop may be reached at ftp://ftp.cc.berkeley.edu/pub/pop/...

: 	if you can't use pop, get it, you'll find much of your
: 	answers in its C source code.

If it will run on a PC, I'll take a look.

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Robinson)
Date: 14 May 1995 17:57:15 GMT

Vladimir Solnicky ([email-masked]) wrote:
: On 19 Apr 1995, Paul Robinson wrote:

: > I like the Pine mailer but I must use something akin to UUCP in order to=

: I think Pegasus mail can do what you want (if you realy want to read mail
: off-line using uucp---on my friend's company use this combination).

I said 'akin to uucp'.  UUCP isn't available; I have to upload an SMTP 
block of text.

: If you only want to use PC and have a direct connection to the 
: Internet, IMAP and some version of PC-PINE would be probably much 
: better.

If I had a direct connection, I could use PC-Pine.

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Robinson)
Date: 14 May 1995 17:57:15 GMT