Re: PC-Pine - reading local mbox files

Uhm, I could get it to work; I just needed to supply the full path for
my mbox file for inbox-path. I should have guessed it...
It confused me, on my Linux, there was really just "inbox", even
though my mbox was at "/var/mail/username", and it was set as the
"MAIL" environmental variable; and Alpine seemed to use that.


2010/9/22 MegaBrutal <[email protected]>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using PC-Pine for Windows. I'd like to read mbox mailboxes stored
> on my local computer. On *nix systems, as I perceived, this is the
> default option for Pine - the MAIL environmental variable contains the
> path to the user's mbox (for example: "/var/mail/whateverusername"),
> and Pine reads that file to collect incoming messages.
>
> I'd like to do the same with PC-Pine, but it seems, it insists to
> contact POP3/IMAP servers to get incoming messages. Well, I don't need
> to connect to any POP3 or IMAP servers, because my mailbox is right
> here on my local computer. I've tried to set the inbox-path to "inbox"
> (deleting any references to POP3 servers), and I've set up an
> environmental variable like "MAIL=C:\SMTPSERVER\mail\user", but it
> simply doesn't work.
>
> Is the feature of reading local mbox files supported by PC-Pine, as it
> is by the traditional *nix Pine versions? If so, how can I set PC-Pine
> to obtain messages from a local file?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> MegaBrutal
>
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