RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

[Dave Nebinger]

Title: Message

You’re looking at the difference between an mbox-based tool (pine) and a maildir-based tool (postfix).   I’m not sure if the mbox/maildir USE flags can override the default behaviour, but you could try “-mbox maildir” in your USE flags and re-emerge both.   Personally rather than trying to get pine to work I switched to mutt…     -----Original Message----- From: Sean Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability   Greetings,      I've installed Postfix.  But when I try to use Pine as a mail client, I can't seem to read an inbox.  It looks like Pine is trying to use an "inbox" which is a file, and Postfix delivers things as individual messages to a folder.  Can I configure Pine to read messages from a folder?  Or, does pine require messages appended as one file?  Or, is there something I can change in Posfix?  I'm flexable :-)   Thank you for your time Sean