Mail checking problem

[Walter Tautz [MFCF]]

On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 02:37:36 -0400 "Adrian Chan" <ach...@uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>I went to picard.math/usr/mail and did cat achchan and ls -all achchan and
>they seem to show that the size is zero.
>the /u/achchan/mbox has the old mail stuff that is suppose to be still
>available for pine to read... I guess those are the weird mail...

Perhaps you could get pine to open mbox as a folder... I believe there
are options to do this in pine, i.e under folder-collections. -wtautz

>
>Is there anyway I can
>
>1) check mail using POP3 client while after checking mail, those mail will
>still be available for pine to read.
>
>Thats all I want really.
>
>Adrian
>
>Adrian Pepper [MFCF] <arpe...@math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
>news:1999092505...@math.uwaterloo.ca...
>> On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 01:27:43 -0400
>> Adrian Chan <ach...@bacon.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> >Apparently, I guess after you guys switched over to this new mail server,
>> >I have this problem of not able to 'keep a copy of a mail' on the server
>> >when I use a POP3 client to check email.
>> >
>> >Everytime Outlook Express has checked email, that message will not appear
>> >in pine again... because it either
>> >
>> >a) has been removed
>> >b) that process made pine think the mail is gone?!
>>
>> What does `maildir`/achchan look like, e.g. if you ls it, or cat it,
>> or edit it, etc.?
>>
>> Based on the case of another student, pop might sometimes be putting
>> mail in /u/achchan/mbox; indeed you do seem to have such a file.
>>
>> Perhaps that is a new interpretation of "leaving mail on server",
>> and it does make more sense for several reasons.
>>
>> >Adrian
>>
>>
>> Adrian.
>
>