Re: retrieving email ?

[Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de>]

On 2001.10.24 20:33:25 +0200 Mike McCue wrote:
> I set the mailbox at /home/mike/mail/, but balsa is complaining that this 
> isn't a valid mailbox.  What constitutes a 'valid' mailbox ?

no, this is only 50% of your answer..

root@ulixys:/home/galaxy > ls -l mail/
total 54952
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users    14867242 Oct 24 20:41 balsa
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users           0 Oct 24 00:30 draftbox
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users     2665291 Oct 24 01:06 evolution
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users      610474 Oct 24 00:30 ewe
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users    11302036 Oct 24 20:41 galeon
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users       17697 Oct 24 00:30 guestbook
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users        3398 Oct 24 00:30 noten
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users           0 Oct 24 20:04 outbox
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users    16671963 Oct 24 20:04 sentbox
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users           0 Oct 24 00:30 trash
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users    10093041 Oct 24 20:12 vim
root@ulixys:/home/galaxy > 

root@ulixys:/var/spool > ls -l mail/
total 15468
-rw-------    1 galaxy   users    15831800 Oct 24 15:57 galaxy
root@ulixys:/var/spool > 

thats valid

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Name....: Ali Akcaagac
Status..: Student Of Computer & Economic Science
E-Mail..: mailto:ali.akcaagac@stud.fh-wilhelmshaven.de
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