Subject: (Fwd) Messages being moved to mbox

From: "Scott Mohnkern" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:20:46 -0500

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From:           	Scott Mohnkern <[email-masked]>
To:             	[email-masked]
Subject:        	Messages being moved to mbox
Date sent:      	Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:03:09 -0500

We recently upgraded to pine 4.40 - Solaris, and we're seeing something
new.

Messages, when they are opened in pine, get moved from the mail spool, to
~/mbox.

Is there any way to eliminate this effect?  I looked at the .pinerc file,
and didn't see anything there.

Scott

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:41:25 -0800 (PST)

*** Scott Mohnkern ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) We recently upgraded to pine 4.40 - Solaris, and we're seeing something
:) new.
:)
:) Messages, when they are opened in pine, get moved from the mail spool, to
:) ~/mbox.

Dear Scott,

My first advice it to upgrade to pine4.43, which is the stable version of
the 4.40 series. Your problem is not related to this, however.

  Your problem comes from the fact that Pine was compiled enabling the
mbox driver, which has this effect when enabled. It is enabled by default.

You can eliminate this behavior without recompiling Pine, all you need to
do is add to make sure that the following appears in the user's pinerc:

disable-these-drivers=mbox

(you can try putting this in the system wide pine.conf.fixed to disable it
for everyone).

 Now you need to take all mail in mbox and copy it to each person's spool.
In order to do this, I would suggest that you move (not copy) the mbox
file to the mail/ directory in each user, and manually save all messages
from mbox to INBOX (the ";" command helps here). Finally you can delete
the mbox file, but of course, don't delete this file until you have backed
up everything in there.

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

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From: daniel lance herrick <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:16:06 -0500 (EST)

Remember that procmail has good tools for pushing
mail around from the command line. If you have a
lot of mailboxes to merge, it may be worth
checking into. What you would want is another
command that comes in the procmail package, I
think it's called "formail", but procmail is not
installed on these systems and I can't check the
man page.

(pine is well-designed to be a nice Mail User
Agent, but that makes it not-nice for doing system
administration.)

dan       [email-masked]
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Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh, but in vain.