a little confusion regarding ~user/Mailbox

[Eric Lalonde]

I've been reading the INSTALL.mbox and am a little confused on exactly how to change from using /var/spool/mail/user to ~user/Mailbox. My understanding is that I create a symbolic link called Mailbox in the user's directory that links to /var/spool/mail/user. Then I tell pine (or whatever the mua is) to use ~user/Mailbox. But this does not seem right since It doesn't really change anything about the way mail is delivered, it just makes a link to the old mailbox.   Instead, do I copy /var/spool/mail/user to ~user/Mailbox, delete /var/spool/mail/user, and make a symbolic link from the new file ~user/Mailbox to /var/spool/mail/user? would this work for something like 'mail' under linux? Any further explanation is appreciated.   Eric