Subject: Re: Enabling the mbox driver

From: Ruth Anne Ladue <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:41:26 -0700

On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Mark Crispin wrote:

> On 25 Sep 1996, Ruth Anne Ladue wrote:
> > We are transitioning our MM users to pine, and we would like for
> > the user to be able to continue to use their existing mbox files
> > as INBOX. The FAQ mentions having to enable the mbox driver to
> > allow this, but does not mention where the driver can be found.
> > I've checked the tech notes and all the group archives, and I can
> > not find any reference to where the driver can be found. Can
> > someone enlighten me?
> 
> Do you really mean "mbox files", or do you mean "mail.txt files"?
> mail.txt is the native and natural format of MM.

I do mean "mbox files." The "native and natural" mail.txt file was changed
to mbox for reasons lost in history.

Additional information: the OS is Solaris 2.5 (SunOS 5.5) on a Sun 670; 
the users' home directories are not NFS mounted.

--Ruth Anne

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:55:36 -0700

Pine supports mail.txt files automatically.  However, Pine does
database-type access to mail.txt files (this is different from MM); it's
faster than MM and allows multiple instances of Pine to have the same file
open, but at the cost of not working over NFS.  Locking and simultaneous
read/write access does't work over NFS. 

So if your users' home directories are NFS-mounted, you should have them
use IMAP to the machine which actually holds the real disk.  NFS is not
really a filesystem, and should not be used to export mail.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:43:34 -0700

> to mbox for reasons lost in history.

If mail is delivered directly to the mbox file (in the users' home
directory, you don't need to compile the mbox driver.  All you need to
do is include the following definition in your
/usr/local/lib/pine.conf file: 

	inbox-path=mbox

> the users' home directories are not NFS mounted.

If mail is delivered to /usr/spool/mail and you want Pine to move
incoming messages to ~/mbox, build Pine as follows:

	build sol EXTRADRIVERS=mbox

Good luck!

--DLM

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From: [email-masked] (Ruth Anne Ladue)
Date: 25 Sep 1996 11:22:51 -0700

Thanks,

--Ruth Anne

Ruth Anne Ladue 		[email-masked]
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--Ruth Anne