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Date:      Sun, 5 Dec 1999 20:33:08 -0800
From:      Brent Kearney <brent@kearneys.ca>
To:        x@asdf.com
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: mail.local hack to deliver email to home directories
Message-ID:  <19991205203308.A3348@kearneys.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912051945140.18963-100000@bellona.asdf.com>; from x@asdf.com on Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:53:55PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912051945140.18963-100000@bellona.asdf.com>

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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/<user>/.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/<mbox>.  At any rate, you should set MAIL environment 
variable, i.e.

MAIL=$HOME/Mailbox
export MAIL=$HOME/Mailbox

-Brent



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