From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 12:45:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camcolo2-smrly1.gtei.net (camcolo2-smrly1.gtei.net [128.11.173.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D0E37B401 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:45:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from istech4.shannonhealth.org (istech4.shannonhealth.org [4.18.79.4]) by camcolo2-smrly1.gtei.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498B164DD; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:45:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: by ISTECH4 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:54:35 -0600 Message-ID: <6C5913137AC8D4119A1800902794313E105050@ISTECH4> From: Andrew Gould To: 'John Bolster' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Please HELP!! email configuration Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:54:30 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm a newbie; so it might work.....or it could destroy yet another rain forest. ;-) Assuming the user name is john, try this: ln -s /var/mail/john /usr/home/john/INBOX Andrew Gould > ---------- > From: John Bolster[SMTP:j.bol@gte.net] > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 14:29 > To: Andrew Gould > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Please HELP!! email configuration > > > > > > > I've never done this; but would a symbolic link from > > /usr/home/user/mbox to > > /var/mail/user/mbox fix the problem? > > Thank you. > > It's not /var/mail/user/mbox, it's /var/mail/user, like /var/mail/john. > The > john file is the actual mailbox. I know imap is looking for a file named > INBOX. Would your method still work? > > Best, > John > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message