From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 18:21:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6AAE16A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from budah.vif.com (mail.vif.com [216.239.64.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D2943D3F for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:21:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rainer@www.Vif.com) Received: from ip216-239-87-106.vif.net (ip216-239-87-106.vif.net [216.239.87.106]) by budah.vif.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3M1Lbf0080900 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:21:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rainer@www.Vif.com) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:19:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "rainer littlecloud@vif.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040421200524.I150@www.Vif.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-vif-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-vif-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: rainer@www.vif.com Subject: fetchmail/pine nonsense - newbie X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 01:21:41 -0000 hello, i'm having trouble accessing my mail as 'user'. pine seems to have created a mail folder in /home/user/mail (sent mail goes there) yet fetchmail insists on dumping my stuff in /var/mail. when i try to access /var/mail/user i get a 'invalid remote specification'? which one of these 2 do i configure to rectify the situation. tried changing my inbox in pine to either of the above with the same error message. read up a little on the .mailrc file but i just want to run fetchmail manually to access my mail once in a while. thanks