Subject: mbox

From: Andy Malato <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:07:28 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

On my BSDI/UNIX box pine is configured to pull and read mail right out of
/var/mail/username

on my SuSE linux box pine is somehow configured that it first reads all of
the mail from /var/spool/mail/username and copies those messages to a file
in my home directory called mbox.

I set the BSDI box up, but the linux box was setup, without going into
detail as to the messy way the linux box was setup, how can I change the
configuration to have mail remain in /var/spool/mail/username on the SuSE
linux machine?

Thanks for your help.

	---Andy

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From: "Eduardo Chappa L." <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:12:31 -0700 (PDT)

*** Andy Malato wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) on my SuSE linux box pine is somehow configured that it first reads all of
:) the mail from /var/spool/mail/username and copies those messages to a file
:) in my home directory called mbox.
:) 
:) I set the BSDI box up, but the linux box was setup, without going into
:) detail as to the messy way the linux box was setup, how can I change the
:) configuration to have mail remain in /var/spool/mail/username on the SuSE
:) linux machine?

Andy,

   Delete the file mbox, but of course save anything in there before you
do this. Pine won't create this file, but if the file exists, messages
from your INBOX, will be copied  to this file, which will act as your
INBOX.

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Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: Andy Malato <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:10:03 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks, worked like a charm.

I belive that the mbox file was probably created by the unix mail program,
strange, cause it doesn't do so on my other machine.

thanks again for your help.

	---Andy