More on mail

[Georgina Joyce]

Hi

Cheers, no I'm attempting to install Debian on another partition but for the
time being, I'm using Slackware 7.1.

I guess that I can't have something set up right as mutt, as you quite
rightly suggested, looked in /var/spool/mail/Gena but complained about it.

Next time I log into my Linux partition, I'll look along that route and see
what is there.

Having had a quick look at mutt, I'm not too sure which om the mail clients
I prefer to work with speakup.  I got the impression that most people liked
pine but I've had a few problems with it.  I'd like to try mutt and pine to
see which one I prefer.  I've got my folders in a single column but speakup
is echoing 2 folder names as I curser up and down my list.  Thus making it
very difficult to be clear about which one is selected.

Thanks for your help.
Gena

gena at visson.freeserve.co.uk g.joyce at uclan.ac.uk

http://www.visson.freeserve.co.uk

Mobile Telephone Number 07951 196268


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Geoff Shang
Sent: 05 February 2001 03:40
To: Speakup Mailing List
Subject: Re: More on mail


Hi Gena:

The unix and linux convention is that mail goes in
/var/spool/mail/<username> (e.g. /var/spool/mail/gena).  It would probably
be possible to change this, but I'm sure you'd have to change several
program configs to do this and, unless you really want your inbox in
/home/gena and are prepared to track it all down, I'd just leave it as it
is.  Mail programs should be configured by default to look in that
location.  If they're not finding your mail however, then it is either not
arriving there or they're looking in the wrong place.

As for pine spell checking, it doesn't work initially because pine is
looking for /usr/bin/spell which is a standard unix program but is not
installed by default (on debian anyway).  If you're running debian, which I
think you are, you need to install the ispell package (which actually does
the spell checking, and then the spell package provides an interface that
looks like unix spell so that pine can actually use it.  So just install
ispell and spell and that should do the job nicely.

Geoff.



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