[luau] mail storage question

whenever whatever at whoever.net
Sat May 18 00:56:49 PDT 2002


I think RH7.2(maybe others) will move the mail from /var/spool/mail to a 
mailbox in your home directory everytime you use pine.  I am not sure what's 
the name of the mailbox, something like ~/mail/mbox or ~/mbox

On Friday 17 May 2002 08:20 pm, you wrote:
> On 17 May 2002, Rodney Kanno wrote:
> | Where does Linux store cron messages and other system email? I have
> | tried importing in  /var/spool/mail/"user name" in evolution and other
> | mail programs, but it comes up blank. Although when I open up pine,
> | there is 100+ messages in the inbox. Looking in the config for pine, the
> | inbox path is set to default (no path shown).
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Rodney
>
> It's actually more of a distribution/configuration/mail transfer agent
> thing than a "Linux" thing, but RedHat/sendmail (in the default
> configuration) stores incoming mail in /var/spool/mail.



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