Is that really /usr/spool/mail/$USER, or /var/spool/mail/$USER ?
	Are you using pine from pkgsrc?

		David/absolute

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On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Fusie Zhang wrote:

> i am trying to install a mail handling package. not sure what is best
> to use. i tried to install pine and fetchmail. pine tells that the
> folder "/usr/spool/mail/$USER" does not exist while it is there. for
> fetchmail, i don't understand all those options and fields in the
> .fetchmailrc file. my NetBSD box in a stand alone home PC. right now
> the only thing i can use to handle mail is netscape which is not very
> convenient. any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Fujie Zhang
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