By default, Pine expects each email *folder* to have its own file.
It may be that mh gives each message its own file, or some other
structure. I don't know.
Each "folder" file can contain many messages -- my folder for the TCLUG
list is ~/mail/tclug, and has over 6000 individual messages.
> understand that Procmail does have the ability to do this but their is a
> deficiency in updating some counters or something. I did not read the
> directions real closely, only to learn that there is a program called
> rcvstore from nmh that people send their mail through to get properly
> processed.
Rcvstore incorporates a message from the standard input
into an nmh folder. This command is typically used in
conjunction with mail filtering programs such as slocal
and procmail, to filter your mail into different folders.
> This is the first time I have set up my e-mail on my Linux machine using
> this process. I the past I have used Netscape and kmail.
>
If mail is coming into your linux box, it gets written to
/var/spool/mail/<userid>. This appears to Pine as the default INBOX.
When you use pine to read mail, you can save messages into folders, which
are usually created in ~/mail/. Adding messages to an existing folder just
appends to the corresponding file. Individual messages are distinguished
by the "From" line.
You can set up procmail to automatically take all messages and dump them
directly into your various mail folders based on the Subject line, or on
any of many other characteristics.
> My question is this, how do I get the e-mail formatted so Pine can read it
> correctly.
So are you trying to get access to the kmail and Netscape saved messages
(which may be in a different format than pine expects) using pine?
Andy
> John Miller