> > 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 Tom, on further checking I see that /var/mail is a link to spool/mail. So I didn't need to change the directory from /var/mail to /var/spool/mail becuase this is where it refers. I remember now that I checked incorporate from spool and that is what actually made the difference. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097
