[ale] mbox and mail spool problem (caused by pine)

[fd0man at gmail.com (Michael Trausch)]

If /var/spool/mail/jay is a mbox format file, you can return the mail
by doing:

  $ cat /home/jay/mbox > /var/spool/mail/jay.temp
  $ cat /var/spool/mail/jay >> /var/spool/mail/jay.temp
  $ mv /var/spool/mail/jay.temp /var/spool/mail/jay

Before doing this you should disable Pine's strange behavior...
However, for that you are on your own with Google... I don't have the
time to look up the answer to that at the moment.

Hope this helps,
  Mike