[SunHELP] CDE mailer doesn't display INBOX in /var/mail

[Carl-Johan Schenstrom]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Eric Williams wrote:

> >> ...does Pine do this...?
> >> 
> >  When pine fires up, I believe that it grabs everything in
> > /var/mail/username and shifts it to the $HOME/mbox file (and from there to
> > other folders [ehich are actaully _files_] as the user chooses to organize
> > the messages.
> >> 
> >> ...and how would I stop it systemwide (if I can)?
> >> 
> >  By, um, not using pine, AFAIK.
>
> Thanks for the response. Actually I know that Pine doesn't always move inbox
> in /var/mail/username to $HOME/mbox because I use it and the CDE mailer and
> I don't have an mbox file. I can switch between the two just fine and all my
> inbox stuff stays in /var/mail, since I also POP all that mail with an email
> client on my Mac. I'm a bit confused.

Pine only transfers your inbox to $HOME/mbox if the file exists and is
either empty or in Unix mailbox format.

You can disable it by adding disable-these-drivers=mbox to the pinerc,
either locally or globally. See
<http://www.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes/config.html>.

//cjs