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Grex Info Item 164: Using menu/Pine to read mbox?
Entered by att on Thu Jul 7 16:18:11 UTC 1994:

Is there a way to use the menu shell and Pine to read our mbox?  Some stuff
we had intended to respond to got accidently "saved" to the wrong place.
Thanks.
AT&T Documentation Staff

10 responses total.

#1 of 10 by rcurl on Thu Jul 7 16:40:17 1994:

Enter     !mail -f

#2 of 10 by carson on Thu Jul 7 17:30:14 1994:

(unfortunately, that uses the "mail" program, not elm or pine. Not that
that's a bad thing, mind you...)

#3 of 10 by scg on Thu Jul 7 19:36:03 1994:

I haven't used the menu shell enough to know if there's a way to do this
directly from the menu shell, but you could try "!pine -f /u/att/mbox"
(without the quotes) from the next bbs prompt.

#4 of 10 by robh on Thu Jul 7 22:01:17 1994:

Best thing to do is select the R option from the main menu
to run a Unix program, then you'll want to run:

        pine -f /u/att/Mail/saved-messages

You can then save them to some other file, delete them, or
whatever.

(Though I do have to wonder why AT&T needs a Grex account.  >8)

#5 of 10 by popcorn on Fri Jul 8 00:07:01 1994:

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#6 of 10 by mta on Fri Jul 8 22:29:59 1994:

Because it cuts way down on the beaurocracy involved with getting an e-mail
account that can go off-site.  This is after 6 months of trying to go through
channels.  *sigh*

#7 of 10 by tsty on Sat Jul 9 11:46:31 1994:

Is #6 an answer to the ( ??? ) question on #4 ?

#8 of 10 by popcorn on Sat Jul 9 12:08:51 1994:

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#9 of 10 by tsty on Tue Jul 12 06:06:18 1994:

<<<OhGoodGrief!!>>> But, ya know, .... I truly believe it, truly.

#10 of 10 by davel on Tue Jul 12 13:03:22 1994:

Oh, is att *you*, Misti?  I'd wondered about this myself - somehow it
showed up somewhere else.  I, too, can believe that your explanation
makes perfect sense.  Thanks.

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