Re: tlug: pine

[craigoda@example.com]

From: "Eric S. Standlee" <fwiw3980@example.com>
Subject: tlug: pine
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:40:35 +0900 (JST)

fwiw3980> I have a problem with pine which I cannot figure out.
fwiw3980> 
fwiw3980> After getting mail, pine proceeds to create a "from" mail folder and put
fwiw3980> countless "empty" emails into it.  How do I stop this?

Is Pine creating the file or is procmail doing it?  Are you using 
procmail as the mail delivery agent?

If you are using procmail, the empty e-mails are kept as a log.  If you
don't want the log, you can redirect it to /dev/null (the wastebasket on
Linux).   In your .procmailrc file you may have some environmental variables
set:

  MAILDIR=/home/craigoda/Mail      # You'd better make sure it exists
  LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from-log
  LOCKFILE=$HOME/Mail/.lock
  SHELL=/bin/bash

You can change it to


  MAILDIR=/home/craigoda/Mail      # You'd better make sure it exists
  LOGFILE=/dev/null                # if you really don't want the log
  LOCKFILE=$HOME/Mail/.lock
  SHELL=/bin/bash


I'm not sure if Pine keeps its own log or not.  It might.

-- Craig






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