UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

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,

A couple of thoughts. It sounds like an imap server setup. Is an imap server installed and running (netstat -a | grep imap or telnet localhost 143|220)? An alternative would be do you have procmail running (.procmailrc and possibly a .forward file in your home directory)?

Carl

Code:

localhost [~]# netstat -a | grep imap
tcp        0      0 *:imaps                 *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:imap                  *:*                     LISTEN

Code:

localhost [~]# telnet localhost 143
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS AUTH=LOGIN]
 localhost IMAP4rev1 2004.357-cpanel at Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:00:52 -0700 (PDT)

no, I have neither of those..

Yep, I'd say you have imap installed and running I haven't had an opportunity to admin imap so I can't be of any more help than this without finding the docs and reading it.

If you don't use imap and it's your server, you might just stop imap. That'd probably solve the problem.

Carl

I still couldn't solve my both problems. Any help will be highly appreciated..