Michael Thies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 22 Mar 2000:
> Mikko Hänninen hat ueber "Re: Problem with pine (i want to use mutt)" geschrieben:
> > What's "pine-format"? Doesn't Pine use standard unix mbox files?
>
> Hmm? I don't know.
It does, at least for the stored mail folders... When I've used it,
anyway, a long long time ago. :-)
> If I use setting spoolfile, and/or starting mutt with "-f INBOX" I get
> INBOX is not a mailbox.
> The INBOX-File has at the beginning two lines with
> *mbx*
> 38d9067300000000
>
> then 30 empty lines, an interessant line with the date:
> 22-Mar-2000 18:44:19 +0100,636;000000000000-00000000
>
> and then the "normal" mail.
Okay, that's not the standard mbox mail format. So Mutt rightly says
it can't read the folder. Mutt supports only 4 mail folder formats:
standard unix mbox, Maildir, MH and MMDF. I don't think that you have
any of those, though I don't know all the details of what MMDF is like.
You need to have your incoming mail folder in one of the above
recognised formats, before Mutt can read it.
> Maybe it is a feature from tmail-4.1(10) or sendmail on this host.
I've never heard of tmail. I doubt sendmail is doing that on its own,
although it could be invoking a separate mail delivery program that
uses that format.
Regards,
Mikko
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