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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:54:30 -0600
From:      Andrew Gould <AndrewGould@shannonhealth.org>
To:        'John Bolster' <j.bol@gte.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Please HELP!! email configuration
Message-ID:  <6C5913137AC8D4119A1800902794313E105050@ISTECH4>

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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
> 


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