Hullo! I'm writing here 'because I never had this problem with Slackware' :)
Okie, in /var/spool/mail, I have a symlink from 'gdh' to my real mailbox in /home/gdh/Mailbox, and this link in this preset dir lets crappy stuff like pine and UW's imapd work correctly... However, I've moved to Debian unstable, with qmail as the MTA, and procmail as the MDA (?) ... Alas procmail complains very loudly when it sees a link in /var/spool/mail - and as it's manpage says, will rename the link to BOGUS.gdh.blahblah ... What I'd like to know is.. is there a way around this, or to disable this 'feature' of procmail? If someone has a more elegant solution I'm all ears, and yes I know the nicest solution is probably mutt and Courier-IMAP, but I like pine I'm afraid :) Kind rgards, Gavin.