[Linux-Anyway] Re: On /home/user/mail
- From: Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 13:40:06 -0700 (PDT)
> > Heh. Was I supposed to touch the file mail/mbox, which is
> > what I'd done, or not? The mail's still in
> > /var/spool/mail/meph after adding the line, logging out &
> > back in.
> Maybe, but is fresh mail coming into the new location?
No. It's still all going to & staying in /var/spool/mail/meph.
> Setting the MAIL variable won't make mail which has already
> been sucked up jump to the new location.
Hence touching mail/mbox.... Would this variable copy what's
in /var/spool/mail/meph, or transfer mail that's in there to
mail/mbox?
At the moment, I still have pine looking in
/var/spool/mail/meph, & I'm simply ls -al'ing =AC/mail to see if
the size of the touched file mbox has changed. Am I doing
something I shouldn't?
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