Re: [Exim] MBX format mailboxes

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Scot Elliott wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I've been trying to get Exim v3.12 and Pine to work together nicely using
> MBX format boxes for some users. Exim seems to write the mailboxes in a
> non BSD-format, but Pine complains that the box is not a valid mailbox
> format. The options I've got in my configure file are:

I hope you don't expect that MBX to be the standard BSD format. mbox
and mbx are very different. mbox is the standard Unix mailbox format.
mbx is a newer, indexed format. Pine should be able to read either, but
you might need to tell it what format you are using.

Tom