From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 12:12:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069C6106566B for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:12:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+U3=90f41673@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B108FC26 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:11:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+U3=90f41673@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-04.mxes.net (mxout-04.mxes.net [216.86.168.179]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573B5163F6B for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:45:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD1BCD05A4 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:45:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:45:26 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080410124526.5fb97d5a@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <47FD99FE.5020805@chrismaness.com> References: <47FD99FE.5020805@chrismaness.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Pine and IMAP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:12:00 -0000 On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:39:26 -0700 Chris Maness wrote: > I have been using a local pine client in conjunction with IMAP for > years without issues. However, recently, it looks like when pine > moves mail to the mbox file, it hoses up my ability to use my imap > clients. Has something changed so that I cannot use pine as a local > client? It looks like I might be able to use pine through IMAP ok, > but not like I used to. If you have a file called mbox in your home directory, pine will move the contents of your inbox there and treat the file as your inbox - the point is to avoid having large amounts of mail in a local spool directory. I presume that by "hoses up my ability to use my imap clients" you are just referring to the fact that pine has moved the mail offline. If you move the mail out of your pine inbox, you can then remove the empty file. Pine doesn't create this file by default, it was probably put there by another client - I have seen mutt do this.