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| 4602.1 | | HELIX::SONTAKKE | | Thu Apr 10 1997 13:44 | 3 |
| mailx -f /var/spool/mailbox/USERNAME/in
should do it
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| 4602.2 | why? | PARZVL::ogodhcp-124-40-227.ogo.dec.com::kennedy | nuncam non paratus | Thu Apr 10 1997 16:01 | 6 |
| just curious, but why would you install the
Netscape mailserver and then use the UNIX mail
tools?
Doesn't it make more sense to use a POP client
(e.g. Netscape Mail)?
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| 4602.3 | I sometimes use UNIX mailx with my POP client | SMURF::PBECK | Who put the bop in the hale-de-bop-de-bop? | Thu Apr 10 1997 20:32 | 27 |
| (Not speaking for the basenoter...)
>just curious, but why would you install the
>Netscape mailserver and then use the UNIX mail
>tools?
>
>Doesn't it make more sense to use a POP client
>(e.g. Netscape Mail)?
If you set up a POP client to access your mail from home as well as
from work (so you can see all your filed mail from home), you've got
to access the mail folders across the dialup connection. This can be
_very_ slow (consider that moving a large message from one folder to
another from your home PC involves copying the entire message down
to your home PC's memory and then back up to the network drive
hosting the destination folder). If I just want to see what mail
I've got waiting for me when I'm working from home, I'll use elm or
mailx to "peek", and even read the mail, rather than firing up a
copy of Eudora at home and waiting five minutes for it to settle
down. Time enough to get it in my mail folders when I'm back in the
office over a LAN connection. (And, yes, I've got the home Eudora
set to not download messages larger than 10k; only helps some.)
I'm considering switching to the Outlook client and use the "remote
mail" option, but in the mean time, this is an "existence proof"
that it can be useful to use both POP clients and UNIX mail tools.
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| 4602.4 | | OSTV03::MAKI | TANSTAAFL | Fri Apr 11 1997 02:17 | 25 |
| Thank you all,
> mailx -f /var/spool/mailbox/USERNAME/in
> should do it
"in" is a directory. So -f doesn't work.
Messages are stored in separate files, like:
message-id@name-of-last-host-on-path
I think it may be a spool for POP/IMAP.
>just curious, but why would you install the
>Netscape mailserver and then use the UNIX mail
>tools?
>Doesn't it make more sense to use a POP client
Because:
1. Netscape Mail Server supports it, so I want to check.
2. Some people (like me and my co-workers :) prefer MH/mailx rather than
Eudora(or Netscape Mail).
( I mainly use a Emacs based MH frontend called "mew.el", these days.
It supports Multipart MIME and PGP/PEM. Very nice. The drawback
is "poor document". :-)
mw
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| 4602.5 | | HELIX::SONTAKKE | | Fri Apr 11 1997 10:55 | 15 |
| This must be the Netscape Mail server oddity. I use Netscape Mail
client 3.01 on the UNIX system to read the mail when I am in the office
and can fire up the Netscape process from the system hosting my
incoming mail folder /var/spool/mail/sontakke
When I am not in my office, I use mail to check the new mail and use
mailx -f nsmail/Inbox or mailx -f nsmail/folder_name
to read old mail. As long as I remember to "x" out of mailx,
everything works great and mailbox remains intact. If I "q" out of
mailx, stuff gets moved to ~/mbox.
One would presume that Netscape server would have an option to support
the standard mailx behaviour.
- Vikas
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