Kevin Ong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When i use popclient release 2.6b (2/7/96) to get mail from my isp mail > server i got this " [inbox (file /var/spool/mail/root) is not in valid > mailbox format] " when trying to run Pine to read the mail.
First, you should consider to use fetchmail, popclient's successor. > Below is the example of the mail content msg > > vmlinuz# cat /var/spool/mail/root > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] This is indeed not a valid format. In a mboxfile, a message starts with a header like >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 14 00:15:37 1997 Notice the "From ". This indicates a new message. A message ends with a blank line. You deleted the mbox file, fetched mails with popclient, and popclient again wrote the main in a wrong format? Maybe you really should try fetchmail. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .