Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:53:27 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: admin <admin2@enabled.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie: procmail question /var/mail Message-ID: <20030621205327.GB3193@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030621185708.M44703@enabled.com> References: <20030621185708.M44703@enabled.com>
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On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:06:55AM -0800, admin wrote: > 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 . > Hi, I use an alternative you migth find usefull. I use the /var/mail directory for the mail that is waiting to be fetched. Users that read there mail localy have a .forward file in there home dir. The users who have a .forward file also have a .procmailrc file. This causes the mail not to be send to /var/mail but to one of there own directories (usaly in /home). The users who don't read there mail localy use pop or imap to fetch it. They have a quota on the /var filesystem. I can as root use the /var/mail system to resend mails by moveing there mailboxes from /home to /var/mail, but they have to use fetchmail or getmail to do this. This way the can rerun there mail though there procmail filters. I don't have the feature included in sendmail. I hope this is helpfull. Contact me if you like this alternative and i will send you come config files if needed. Alex
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