On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Brian Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi, all
> > I seem to have a problem with using pine on redhat 5.1. After I read all
> > the incoming mails, aren't they supposed to be saved in the mail.txt in
> > the home directory? But now the mail.txt is never created and all the
> > mails remain in a file (which has the same name as account name) under
> > /var/spool/mail. The strange thing is it happens to some accounts, but not
> > to all of them.
> > Any suggestion or fix?
>
>
> i've never heard of the mail being moved to mail.txt.
>
> if you create a $HOME/mbox file, it will save the mail to it. go into the
> help menu in pine, and then to the index. search (w) for mbox, and it will
> link you to the info
Goto the pine configuration and tell it what to do with read mail. I
usually have it set to move read mail to ~/mail/read. There are two
different options you should look at:
read-message-folder
auto-move-read-msgs
Bill Carlson
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