From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 20:29:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kearneys.ca (cr1003527-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.36.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACF0B14FF5 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 20:29:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brent@kearneys.ca) Received: (qmail 3383 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Dec 1999 04:33:09 -0000 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 20:33:08 -0800 From: Brent Kearney To: x@asdf.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: mail.local hack to deliver email to home directories Message-ID: <19991205203308.A3348@kearneys.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from x@asdf.com on Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:53:55PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:53:55PM -0500, x@asdf.com wrote: > > 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//.mail, instead of /var/mail. All he did was change one > line in mail.local.c: You should consider trying qmail, which delivers by default to /home/user/. At any rate, you should set MAIL environment variable, i.e. MAIL=$HOME/Mailbox export MAIL=$HOME/Mailbox -Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message