Re: PC-Pine remote connection

Mark Crispin wrote:

> Did you try the simple: {[server]/...}INBOX without any of the
> "~<username>/mail/" stuff?
>
> INBOX is a special name with magic properties, but only if you
> use just the string "INBOX" with no garnish. It isn't in the
> same place as your other mailboxes.

Thanks Eduardo and Mark.

After some thinking and a careful re-read of the (sketchy) UW imapd
documents and some of the stuff on the power pine ii page, I
realised that I was misunderstanding what imapd was doing when I
logged onto the mail machine. I moved the target mailbox file that
'getmail' was using to /var/spool/mail/<username> and sure enough
(after some messing with permissions) with just INBOX in the target
as Mark suggests above it worked.

Although the local Linux Pine version is happy with just
~username/mail/inbox as a target, as soon as a proper machine name
becomes involved only INBOX seems to work as the second field in
that description. Realising that /var/... was implied was the
breakthrough!

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Chris Game

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