I think RH7.2(maybe others) will move the mail from /var/spool/mail to a mailbox in your home directory everytime you use pine. I am not sure what's the name of the mailbox, something like ~/mail/mbox or ~/mbox
On Friday 17 May 2002 08:20 pm, you wrote: > On 17 May 2002, Rodney Kanno wrote: > | Where does Linux store cron messages and other system email? I have > | tried importing in /var/spool/mail/"user name" in evolution and other > | mail programs, but it comes up blank. Although when I open up pine, > | there is 100+ messages in the inbox. Looking in the config for pine, the > | inbox path is set to default (no path shown). > | > | Thanks, > | Rodney > > It's actually more of a distribution/configuration/mail transfer agent > thing than a "Linux" thing, but RedHat/sendmail (in the default > configuration) stores incoming mail in /var/spool/mail.
