Hi Cheers, no I'm attempting to install Debian on another partition but for the time being, I'm using Slackware 7.1. I guess that I can't have something set up right as mutt, as you quite rightly suggested, looked in /var/spool/mail/Gena but complained about it. Next time I log into my Linux partition, I'll look along that route and see what is there. Having had a quick look at mutt, I'm not too sure which om the mail clients I prefer to work with speakup. I got the impression that most people liked pine but I've had a few problems with it. I'd like to try mutt and pine to see which one I prefer. I've got my folders in a single column but speakup is echoing 2 folder names as I curser up and down my list. Thus making it very difficult to be clear about which one is selected. Thanks for your help. Gena gena at visson.freeserve.co.uk g.joyce at uclan.ac.uk http://www.visson.freeserve.co.uk Mobile Telephone Number 07951 196268 -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Geoff Shang Sent: 05 February 2001 03:40 To: Speakup Mailing List Subject: Re: More on mail 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. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
