Hi Gena: The unix and linux convention is that mail goes in /var/spool/mail/<username> (e.g. /var/spool/mail/gena). It would probably be possible to change this, but I'm sure you'd have to change several program configs to do this and, unless you really want your inbox in /home/gena and are prepared to track it all down, I'd just leave it as it is. Mail programs should be configured by default to look in that location. If they're not finding your mail however, then it is either not arriving there or they're looking in the wrong place. As for pine spell checking, it doesn't work initially because pine is looking for /usr/bin/spell which is a standard unix program but is not installed by default (on debian anyway). If you're running debian, which I think you are, you need to install the ispell package (which actually does the spell checking, and then the spell package provides an interface that looks like unix spell so that pine can actually use it. So just install ispell and spell and that should do the job nicely. Geoff.
