From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 14:24:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDFD37B401 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 14:24:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp08.wxs.nl (smtp08.wxs.nl [195.121.6.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A5243F3F for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 14:24:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp08.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HGU009ROOQNO1@smtp08.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:23:13 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5LKrWcO060222; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:53:32 +0200 (CEST envelope-from akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h5LKrRgQ060221; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:53:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:53:27 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <20030621185708.M44703@enabled.com> To: admin Message-id: <20030621205327.GB3193@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <20030621185708.M44703@enabled.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie: procmail question /var/mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 21:24:08 -0000 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/ > 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