Re: Net connection Problem

[Kostas Sfakiotakis <kostassf cha forthnet gr>]

Greetings Bob,

Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:10:13PM -0700, brad mugleston comcast net wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 brad mugleston comcast net wrote:
> >
> > Well, this is what happens when no one is around....  I started
> > going through more books and came across the "route" command.  It
> > showed my gateway as 192.168.1.254 so I added a gateway of
> > 192.168.1.1 and deleted the .254 gateway and now I'm getting
> > email.  Really cool.
> >
> > OK, now I've got some questions - one reason for putting
> > fetchmail on a different machine was it's always on so there is
> > less chance of mail building up on the internet.  The other
> > reason was so I could use multiple computers to read my email.
> > Checking out my new /var/spool/mail directory I see my mail
> > account grow when fetchmail goes out to get mail then it goes to
> > zero when Pine goes and picks it up.  i have a feeling it's
> > moving it to my local machine
>
>
> That is correct.


Is there a way of asking pine not to move email from
/var/spool/mail/root ( assuming root is the user ) to an
mbox file ?


Kind Regards,
  Kostas