On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 r.ford@cox.net wrote:

> Hello All,
> I set up a nice web-mail interface with Imp, and was getting mail just
> fine.  I guess it pulls from /var/spool/mail/$USER.
> 
> The problem came when I used Pine for the first time on this box.
> Suddenly, the spool is always empty, and Pine puts it in $USER/mbox, which
> is fine for Pine.  But, this is horrible for being notified at the
> commandline from /usr/bin/mail about new incoming mail, and of course also
> for my web-mail interface.
> 
> So does anyone know what I triggered by using pine?  Some config file
> somewhere?  Luckily, it is only me and not system-wide.  I moved .pinerc,
> and am waiting to find out the results, although it seems that there
> should be a better solution than removing .pinerc.

Perhaps your mail setup is using the Maildir format for delivery?  In
which case your mail is most likely in $HOME/Maildir.  If you want Pine to
check Maildir instead of /var/spool/mail, then you'll either have to patch
Pine or configure Pine to check your email using IMAP (check Google).
~M



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