Subject: Moved xxx bytes from /var/mail/..... (fwd)

From: Dave <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:14:22 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

When I'm at home, I use a client other than pine to access my mail... i
like confidentiality, so it downloads it to my home computer and then
deletes it.

However, pine 4.05 does that thing where it moves the mail from the system
mailbox (/var/mail/$LOGNAME) to somewhere in your home directory.  How can
I make it not do this?

Dave

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From: Michael Thomas Cope <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:21:18 -0700 (PDT)

> mailbox (/var/mail/$LOGNAME) to somewhere in your home directory.  How can

This is a "feature" and can be disabled two ways.  Either rename 
~/mbox or edit your ~/.pinerc and change
disable-these-drivers=
to
disable-these-drivers=mbox

<from tech-notes.txt>

   disable-these-drivers
   This variable is a list of mail drivers which will be disabled. The
   candidates for disabling are listed below. There may be more in the
   future if you compile Pine with a newer version of the c-client
   library.

     * mbox 
     * mbx
     * mh
     * mmdf
     * mtx
     * mx
     * news
     * phile
     * tenex
     * unix
  
   The mbox driver enables the following behavior: if there is a file
   called mbox in your home directory, and if that file is either empty
   or in Unix mailbox format, then every time you open INBOX the mbox
   driver will automatically transfer mail from the system mail spool
   directory into the mbox file and delete it from the spool directory.
   If you disable the mbox driver, this will not happen.

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