Subject: Re: Pine - not see email - Sun

From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:21:59 -0800

The most obvious explanation is that you built the "sun" port of Pine
instead of the "sol" port.  The sun port is for the BSD-based SUN-OS; the
sol port is for Solaris (which is what "SunOS 5.4" really is).

On SUN-OS, mail was located in /usr/spool/mail, which is probably where
your Pine is looking.  If you make a symbolic link to /var/mail from
/usr/spool/mail, Pine will probably start working, but you should build
the proper port.

On 28 Nov 1995 [email-masked] wrote:
> SunOS 5.4 sun4m sparc
>
> I have pine installed on /usr/local/bin/pine (protections:   -rwxr-xr-x)
>
> When I enter pine it displays my INBOX as having zero messages.
>
> When I enter mailx it displays a queue of messages awaiting to be read.
>
> What have I done wrong in this installation?
>
> The mail is located in: /var/mail/userid

-- Mark --

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From: [email-masked] ()
Date: 28 Nov 95 23:32:21 -0500

SunOS 5.4 sun4m sparc

Thanks

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