On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Scot Elliott wrote:
> I've been trying to get Exim v3.12 and Pine to work together nicely using
> MBX format boxes for some users.
Works for me with Pine 4.05.
> Exim seems to write the mailboxes in a
> non BSD-format,
There should be "*mbx*" followed by CR, LF and some binary stuff at the
start.
> but Pine complains that the box is not a valid mailbox
> format. The options I've got in my configure file are:
>
> in the Transports:
> local_mbx:
> driver = appendfile
> file = /var/mail/${local_part}
> delivery_date_add
> envelope_to_add
> return_path_add
> group = mail
> mode = 0660
> mbx_format
> prefix =
> suffix =
I also have
check_string =
in mine, but that shouldn't affect things.
> and in the Directors:
> local_mbx:
> driver = localuser
> transport = local_mbx
> require_files = +${home}/.wantmbx
>
> ... which as far as I can tell, should deliver in MBX format to those
> users who have a .wantmbx file in their home directories...
Looks right to me.
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