On 13/10/06, <a href="mailto:wade@wadesmart.com">wade@wadesmart.com</a> <<a href="mailto:wade@wadesmart.com">wade@wadesmart.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 10132006 0956 GMT-6 Ok. I backed up my mail - all 6G of it. Now, I tried the mail command but it gives me stuff from 2004, when I first got onto Ubuntu. I read the man files but Im not great with the command line. I typed in mail and it shoes me 20 files with Anacron Jobs written on them. How do I switch to my evolution inbox? </blockquote></div> Whilst in mail d to delete the current email n to move to the next one q to quit As for how to switch to your Evolution mailbox, you will need to determine where Evolution stores this mailbox and you can attempt to read it with mail -f <"/path/to/evolution/mailbox" I would have hoped that it was working in ~/mbox but it appears from your surprise at finding housekeeping mail going back to 2004, that it doesn't. Of course, this relies on the fact that evolution stores its mailbox in standard mbox format - you'll need to refer to your Evolution docs determine if this is the case or not. -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black...