Re: /var/spool/mail/?

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:06:48PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote:
> debs,
> 
> my non-root account is "bt," but my real email username
> is "pplaw ,"  which is not a "user" on any of my
> boxes.  so, as "bt," when i execute mutt, i get
> "/var/spool/mail/bt," instead of
> "/var/spool/mail/pplaw."
> 
> fetchmail gets the mail for "pplaw"  and exim puts it
> in "/var/spool/mail/pplaw."  how do i , logged in as
> user, "bt," enable mutt to go to
> "/var/spool/mail/pplaw"?

Change your ~/.fetchmailrc to have something like:

....
username pplaw is bt here
password <remote_passwd>


> 
> once this gets worked out, i should be able to compare
> the linux mail client package to netscape's.
> 
> ia, t.
> 
> bentley taylor
>  (potato on 2.2.16)
> 
> //
> 
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