PC-Pine - reading local mbox files

MegaBrutal

2010-09-22 08:34:39 UTC

Uhm, I could get it to work; I just needed to supply the full path for
my mbox file for inbox-path. I should have guessed it...
It confused me, on my Linux, there was really just "inbox", even
though my mbox was at "/var/mail/username", and it was set as the
"MAIL" environmental variable; and Alpine seemed to use that.

Post by MegaBrutal
Hello,
I'm using PC-Pine for Windows. I'd like to read mbox mailboxes stored
on my local computer. On *nix systems, as I perceived, this is the
default option for Pine - the MAIL environmental variable contains the
path to the user's mbox (for example: "/var/mail/whateverusername"),
and Pine reads that file to collect incoming messages.
I'd like to do the same with PC-Pine, but it seems, it insists to
contact POP3/IMAP servers to get incoming messages. Well, I don't need
to connect to any POP3 or IMAP servers, because my mailbox is right
here on my local computer. I've tried to set the inbox-path to "inbox"
(deleting any references to POP3 servers), and I've set up an
environmental variable like "MAIL=C:\SMTPSERVER\mail\user", but it
simply doesn't work.
Is the feature of reading local mbox files supported by PC-Pine, as it
is by the traditional *nix Pine versions? If so, how can I set PC-Pine
to obtain messages from a local file?
Thanks in advance,
MegaBrutal