I have 2 problems with my mail on Unix..

1- I have accounts on 2 different unix boxes, one running Sun Solaris and other is a version of Linux. When I receive email on those machines, on one the email arrives in my /var/mail/USERNAME; whereas on the other box the email is delivered to $HOME/mail/inbox even though I have a /var/mail/USERNAME file ready to receive messages. It creates problems because my pine email program is configured to read the messages in /var/mail/USERNAME file. Since the emails arrive on $HOME/mail/inbox I have to cat it at the end of the /var/mail/USERNAME file.. and there are some other additional problems as well, such as deleting messages and so on.

I browsed through the config files on the system to see where it says that "receive the messages on $HOME/mail/inbox" but I couldn't find anything. Even when I delete the $HOME/mail/inbox file or the $HOME/mail directory, it still creats that directory and/or file on new message arrival..

what makes that difference? where is it configured that way, any idea?

(I hope I have been clear..)

2- When I am trying to send an email using pine I receive a message like this:

And I can't send any message. What might be the problem?

Regards,