Seems like a bug in pine actually.
When you specify "INBOX" as your mailbox (eg. via IMap or in the
inbox-path .pinerc option), pine does not auto-detect the format of the
file. If you specify it as a full path (eg. /var/mail/blah) then it does.
I'll have a look at the code and see if I can spot any obvious bug when I
have a minute.
Scot
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Tom wrote:
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> 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
>
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