___________________________________________________________________________ Mail: How pine and Eudora deal with your maildrop Q. If I use both pine in the shell and Eudora in PPP, do they both use the same mail message pool? A. They both get their messages from your maildrop, located at: /usr/spool/mail/username ...where "username" is replaced by your own login name. Pine will, unless you answer No when it asks, move your mail from your mail drop to your mail directory (~mickey/mail). Eudora, unless you have the "Leave messages on server" option checked under Special | Switches, will copy your mail from your maildrop to your PC's Eudora mail directory, then delete it from the maildrop. Q. Does pine actually use up your disk resources, while Eudora (or other in PPP) don't? A. Pine uses up some of the disk space in your account by storing your mail in your home directory on our server. Eudora generally copies it to the hard disk on your PC or Mac, thus using up your own disk space rather than occupying space on the server. Q. Pine is easy to use, but a bit of a multi-step process to get attached files to my home machine. If understand correctly, using a mail client such as Eudora via PPP or SLIP, mail and attachments are actually sent to and from my hard disk directly? A. Exactly correct. (29-Mar-96/maihpaed/WRD) ___________________________________________________________________________ Copyright 1996 Northwest Nexus Inc. All Rights Reserved. This document may not be reproduced nor redistributed in any form without express permission; contact us at support@halcyon.com with questions.