Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:06:55 -0800 From: "admin" <admin2@enabled.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: newbie: procmail question /var/mail Message-ID: <20030621185708.M44703@enabled.com>
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Hi, Okay I have read some tutorial sites on procmail but want to make sure I have some things clear here before I move everybody plus some things I dont quite understand are happening and I cant find relevant infromation. /var/mail is filling up quickly. I am attmepting to migrate /var/mail/<user> files to a new scheme that places the DEFAULT local delivery to something like $HOME/Mailbox . I am using procmail for local delivery and sendmail is the agent. in sendmail I have the following from the <hostname>.mc file. --- snip --- define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/local/bin/procmail')dnl FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`/usr/local/bin/procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl --- snip ---- okay but I have a few users with $DEFAULT defined to /var/mail/<user> so I am trying to figure out a way to gracefully handle this without creating the need for a flag day and have the need to have every user redefine their $DEFAULT . I thought I could just have a soft symlink from /var/mail/<user> to $HOME/Mailbox . but every new message delivery replaces /var/mail/<user> and then generates a /var/mail/BOGUS.<user>.ca I guess this can be asked somewhere else like a procmail list but well this list has a lot of good information in the past. Should I go to the procmail lists for support or can somebody help me here? - Noah
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