Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ3] HELP! Mailer Deamon problem

[Liz <daldog@xxxxxxxx>]

> Gerald wrote:  On: Saturday, March 25, 2000 1:40 PM
> Pine creates mbox the first time a user accesses his mail.
>
> Pine will pull mail from /usr/spool/mail into ~/mbox, which will be a 
> Bky-format
> folder.

I don't have that directory, but have a /home/spool/mail/
Assuming this is a Cobalt specific setup.


> The mbox driver enables the following behavior: if there is a file called mbox
> in your home directory, and if that file is either empty or in Unix mailbox
> format, then every time you open INBOX the mbox driver will automatically
> transfer mail from the system mail spool directory into the mbox file and 
> delete
> it from the spool directory. If you disable the mbox driver, this will not
> happen.
>
> for more info follow this link:
>
> http://www.washington.edu/pine/
> >

Thanks for the link and detailed explaination. :-)

One other question, tho....does the admin mailbox in /home/spool/mail/admin 
suppose to always have this message containted in it's mailbox???

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From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
X-IMAP: 0953930715 0000000001
Status: RO

This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
a real message.  It is created automatically by the mail system software.
If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
with the data reset to initial values.
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I read through the Pine docs but couldn't find any mention of this message.

Liz