Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:53:55 -0500 (EST) From: x@asdf.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mail.local hack to deliver email to home directories Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912051945140.18963-100000@bellona.asdf.com>
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Hello
The old sys admin who used to work here had hacked the mail.local program
on an OLD BSD system so that email would be delivered to
/usr/home/<user>/.mail, instead of /var/mail. All he did was change one
line in mail.local.c:
/* Hack to send mail to users local directories */
/* (void)snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/%s", _PATH_MAILDIR, name); */
(void)snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s/.mail", pw->pw_dir);
This has always worked and we have never had a problem with it. I just did
this to my new 3.3 machine and it seems to work fine, though I haven't
finished testing it. My question is, does anyone see any issues with this?
I know that you can use procmail as your local mailer, but I had
heard/read that procmail is not the best solution for FreeBSD local
mailing because of how it reads the emails into memory (i.e. a big mail
can crash procmail).
Thanks,
-Dan
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