On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:05:15PM -0700, Richard E Miles wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:43:15PM -0300, Andre Costa wrote: > >> Richard E Miles <r.godzilla@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > I've been using sylpheed mail program and would like to read from my > >> > local user mailbox. i.e. /var/spool/mail/rmiles. I set up the account > >> > as instructed to use None (local). I used fetchmail to download my .... > > Play with a dummy local account... > > > In sylpheed check the tab configuration --> common preferences. > > On that window look under the Receive tab and inspect the spool dir. > > Click incorp from spool... .... > Thanks Tom. I solved the problem by chnaging the spool direcory for > /var/mail to /var/spool/mail in the common preferences. This tells me that the defaults for sylpheed on FC3 do not match what sendmail uses. Time for a small bugzilla. I was impressed with sylpheed... It does need a simple man page that points users to the on line documents. /usr/share/sylpheed/faq /usr/share/sylpheed/manual -- T o m M i t c h e l l Just say no to 74LS73 in 2004