From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from s1.uklinux.net(ns1.uklinux.net[212.1.130.11]) (2078 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:09:11 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from ppp-5b-72.3com.telinco.net (Gena@ppp-5b-72.3com.telinco.net [212.159.137.72]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f15J97611661 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:09:08 GMT Envelope-To: Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:09:51 +0000 (/etc/localtime) From: Georgina Joyce To: Speakup Mailing List Subject: Re: More on mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi Cheers, I've just looked and there isn't a file or folder called Gena. What do I have to do to get my mail brought on to my machine? Do I have to create a file called Gena or should have pine created one? BTW: Where was the option to change the character set to iso 8859 within pine? Regards Gena On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Kirk Wood wrote: > > The unix and linux convention is that mail goes in > > /var/spool/mail/ (e.g. /var/spool/mail/gena). It would probably > > be possible to change this, but I'm sure you'd have to change several > > program configs to do this and, unless you really want your inbox in > > /home/gena and are prepared to track it all down, I'd just leave it as it > > is. > > One thing you might want to do (from the qmail install instructions) if ou > decide to move the mail into your home directory is set the permisions the > same as your "normal" mail spool file, and create a softlink to the new > location. This will prevent you from having to change all your configs. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net > > Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >