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How do I configure Pine to not leave mail in /usr/spool/mail?

April 26, 2017configure leave mail Pine spool usr

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How do I configure Pine to not leave mail in /usr/spool/mail?

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You have several options: • Leave inbox in /usr/spool/mail, but turn on the Pine option to prompt users to move read messages to a folder in their home directory upon exiting Pine. • Modify your mail delivery program to deliver mail directly into the user’s home directory, and specify that inbox-path in your global pine.conf (See the “tmail” program on ftp.cac.washington.edu for an example.) • “mailutil create #driver.mbx/INBOX"e; in each home directory, which will cause Pine (upon startup) to pull mail from /usr/spool/mail into ~/INBOX — however, mail.txt will be a mbx-format, rather than Berkeley mail format folder (faster, but non-standard). • “touch mbox” in each home directory, which will cause Pine (upon startup) to pull mail from /usr/spool/mail into ~/mbox, which will be a Bky-format folder.