Using Pine to check other email boxes

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.org server:
pine -if scsmath.org/108__/inbox
      (The above works 5 October 2005, previously had:)
pine -if /home/scsmath/mail/108/inbox
etc.

.com server:

pine -if /var/spool/mail/scsmath.com/mdbr
  (The above works 5 October 2005, previously had:)
pine -if /var/spool/mail/scsmath.com/

To check mail in a different mailbox, you need to tell pine to read from

that specific mailbox folder, and not the default. You do this by

appending "-f" (folder) and the folder name (in this case,

"/var/spool/mail/scsmath.com/sangha") to the pine command. Thus, to check

mail in the sangha@scsmath mailbox, you enter:

 

pine -if /var/spool/mail/scsmath.com/sangha

 

i.e. it is the following plus the mailbox name:

Pine for other mailboxes

pine -if /var/spool/mail/scsmath.com/

 

In Unix, anything preceded by a "-" is called an argument, and it modifies

the behaviour of the command. The above command breaks down as follows:

 

"pine" invokes the pine mail reader

 

"-i" go directly to the mailbox index (messages), bypassing main menu

"-f" open the following folder instead of the default

 

"/var/spool/mail/scsmath.com/sangha" the folder to be opened

 

 

 

To check mail in a different mailbox, however, you need to tell pine to read from that specific mailbox folder, and not the default. You do this by appending "-f" (folder) and the folder name (in this case, "/var/spool/mail/scsmath.com/sangha") to the pine command. Thus, to check mail in the sangha@scsmath mailbox, you enter:

 

pine -if /var/spool/mail/scsmath.com/sangha

 

In Unix, anything preceded by a "-" is called an argument, and it modifies the behaviour of the command. The above command breaks down as follows:

 

"pine" invokes the pine mail reader

 

"-i" go directly to the mailbox index (messages), bypassing main menu "-f" open the following folder instead of the default

 

"/var/spool/mail/scsmath.com/sangha" the folder to be opened

 

 

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