On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, aphro wrote: > I am switching my systems over to using ~/mail/mbox instead of > /var/spool/mail/$USER > > i configured procmail to deliver mail to ~/mail/mbox and configured pine > to look to ~/mail/mbox but i cant seem to get imapd or ipopd from pine > 4.21 to look there. and there seems to be very little documentation on > ipopd/imapd. > > any ideas? im gonna look into other pop3 packages and test compadiblity > maybe qpopper would be better(with my mailbox formatting whatever ipopd > uses..) > Are you using imapd/ipopd from the upstream pine distribution or the (unofficial) debianized version?
imapd and ipopd is based on the c-client library. The mbox driver in c-client uses $HOME/mbox by default. You will have to recompile it to use $HOME/mail/mbox. The debian libc-client4.7 package has instructions for doing so in README.Debian -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
