Net connection Problem

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Bob,

Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:10:13PM -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 brad.mugleston at 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