Re: tlug: pine

["Eric S. Standlee" <fwiw3980@example.com>]

Embarassing.  I looked at my procmailrc and didn't see that.  Duh!

I am very grateful for your help Craig.  You hit the nail on the head (my
rock head). <grin>

Eric S. Standlee
Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan
e-w.standlee@example.com
fwiw3980@example.com <default>

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 craigoda@example.com wrote:

> From: "Eric S. Standlee" <fwiw3980@example.com>
> Subject: tlug: pine
> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:40:35 +0900 (JST)
> 
> fwiw3980> I have a problem with pine which I cannot figure out.
> fwiw3980> 
> fwiw3980> After getting mail, pine proceeds to create a "from" mail folder and put
> fwiw3980> countless "empty" emails into it.  How do I stop this?
> 
> Is Pine creating the file or is procmail doing it?  Are you using 
> procmail as the mail delivery agent?
> 
> If you are using procmail, the empty e-mails are kept as a log.  If you
> don't want the log, you can redirect it to /dev/null (the wastebasket on
> Linux).   In your .procmailrc file you may have some environmental variables
> set:
> 
>   MAILDIR=/home/craigoda/Mail      # You'd better make sure it exists
>   LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from-log
>   LOCKFILE=$HOME/Mail/.lock
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
> 
> You can change it to
> 
> 
>   MAILDIR=/home/craigoda/Mail      # You'd better make sure it exists
>   LOGFILE=/dev/null                # if you really don't want the log
>   LOCKFILE=$HOME/Mail/.lock
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if Pine keeps its own log or not.  It might.
> 
> -- Craig
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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