Subject: Pine 4.53 behaviour

From: Jeremy DAWSON <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:27:17 +1000 (EST)

I've been using Pine for years, and recently our OS was upgraded,
including a new version of Pine, so it's now Pine 4.53

Now I find that whenever I use Pine, it seems to automatically transfer
new messages from my mailbox ( /var/mail/jeremy )
to the file I use to store messages ( ~jeremy/mbox )

The local support staff know nothing about it, its certainly nothing
they've set up to make it do this.

Short of reading through the entire on-line help, I can't seem to find
anything there about this "feature" and how I can stop it.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Jeremy
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From: "Mike A. Harris" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 03:06:25 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Jeremy DAWSON wrote:

>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:27:17 +1000 (EST)
>From: Jeremy DAWSON <[email-masked]>
>To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
>Subject: Pine 4.53 behaviour
>
>

That is quite an FAQ.  The short story is:  Delete/rename/move 
the ~/mbox file and do not run any software which recreates the 
file.  If the file exists when pine starts, it will use mbox.

Alternatively, disable mbox support either in the config file, or 
at compile time so that the annoying mbox driver isn't present at 
all.  Details in the pine documentation, or on the web.

Hope this helps.

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