Re: exporting /var/spool/mail/user as mailbox

2003-06-22 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:49:31PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > have access to a Windows pc and a modem connection. I would like to > be able to pick up my mai, which I can do already through my > university account; but I'd rather not have to refilter it and reread > it all when I get back home. s

Re: exporting /var/spool/mail/user as mailbox

2003-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 01:49:31PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [...] | I am about to go on an extended vacation, during which time I'll only | have access to a Windows pc and a modem connection. I would like to | be able to pick up my mai, [...] Options (in my order of preference, but YMMV) : 1

Re: exporting /var/spool/mail/user as mailbox

2003-06-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Matt Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030620 12:11]: > Hey folks, > > here's the situation: > > I get my mail through a university account, which I download and > filter every ten minutes on my work machine. > > I am about to go on an extended vacation, during which time I'll only > have access to a

Re: exporting /var/spool/mail/user as mailbox

2003-06-20 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Matt Price wrote: > I get my mail through a university account, which I download and > filter every ten minutes on my work machine. > > I am about to go on an extended vacation, during which time I'll only > have access to a Windows pc and a modem connection. I would like to > be able to pick up

exporting /var/spool/mail/user as mailbox

2003-06-20 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, here's the situation: I get my mail through a university account, which I download and filter every ten minutes on my work machine. I am about to go on an extended vacation, during which time I'll only have access to a Windows pc and a modem connection. I would like to be able to pic

Re: ~Maildir and /var/spool/mail/$USER

2002-01-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Américo Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.09.1843 +0100]: > I'm running Maildir, wich is configured to deliver mail > to ~/home/Maildir. But somehow, some messages, are still > being delivered to /var/spool/mail/$USER. I *don't* even > have exim running

Re: ~Maildir and /var/spool/mail/$USER

2002-01-09 Thread dsr
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:43:33PM +, Am?rico Rocha wrote: > > Hi all > > I have a serious problem with my portato box > > I'm running Maildir, wich is configured to deliver mail > to ~/home/Maildir. But somehow, some messages, are still > being delivered to /v

~Maildir and /var/spool/mail/$USER

2002-01-09 Thread Américo Rocha
Hi all I have a serious problem with my portato box I'm running Maildir, wich is configured to deliver mail to ~/home/Maildir. But somehow, some messages, are still being delivered to /var/spool/mail/$USER. I *don't* even have exim running Does someone have some tip to so9lve this

Re: /var/spool/mail/USER

2001-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
I think I miss interpreted original poster's message. Vector send me a following message. I hope this solves your problem. > I'm replying to you off-list because I don't want this email address > spammed to carnation. procmail will change the permissions on a > mailbox when it delivers mail if

Re: /var/spool/mail/USER

2001-10-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
this mis-owned MBOX created to start with. FYI: Debian default MTA is exim. On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:26:43PM +0200, Davi Leal wrote: > Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 > Mailbox (/var/spool/mail/user) has to be owned by the user who is > recipient and group mail, otherwise the old, "mis-o

/var/spool/mail/USER

2001-10-22 Thread Davi Leal
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3   Mailbox (/var/spool/mail/user) has to be owned by the user who is recipient and group mail, otherwise the old, "mis-owned," mailbox gets renamed "BOGUS.blah," and a new mailbox with proper ownership gets created.   But what is happening?. The new m

Re: /var/spool/mail/user missing

1999-11-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
aving the mail on the server) until I figure this out. > Second, how do you retrieve mail? Does the mail even make it to > /var/spool/mail/$USER? > Normally I use fetchmail and just run it as a daemon. This is a new install, so I just copied the .forward, .fetchmailrc, and procmail rel

Re: /var/spool/mail/user missing

1999-11-23 Thread David S. Jackson
at tests have you run? Is this a first-time configuration, or have you gotten mail to work before? Second, how do you retrieve mail? Does the mail even make it to /var/spool/mail/$USER? Third, can you read mail with other MUA's, such as elm or mailx? In other words, have you decided whether

/var/spool/mail/user missing

1999-11-23 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I sent a preovious message, but I don't know where it went. It never showed up in Netscape, but then my timezone info is screwed up in netscape (which is why I use mutt). It may show up tonight... Anyway, my problem is: I was trying to set up another box, and when all was done, I couldn'