Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:52:48 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Spork Admin <admin@spork.spods.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail.local Message-ID: <20000724185248.A15078@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241326340.5051-100000@spork.spods.co.uk>; from admin@spork.spods.co.uk on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:28:47PM %2B0100 References: <NEBBKKFCGLCOKOEIADGKEEOICAAA.keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241326340.5051-100000@spork.spods.co.uk>
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On Mon, 24-Jul-2000 at 13:28:47 +0100, Spork Admin wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me what calls mail.local at bootup time? I'm using
> > > FreeBSD 4.1-RC and wish to change the local mailer for procmail.
> > > It won't let me touch mail.local, I can only assume because it is in use.
> >
> > mail.local is called by the `local' mailer of sendmail.
> > you can recofigure your sendmail to use procmail instead of mail.local
> > for the local delivery agent.
> >
> > see the following features of sendmail's master-config file:
> >
> > FEATURE(local_procmail)
> > MAILER(procmail)
> >
> > > Also, can anyone suggest if I should simply mv mail.local, and symlink it
> > > to procmail, or should I actually change whatever it is that calls
> > > mail.local at bootup.
> >
> > no need to mess with things like that.
> > you can simple reconfigure your sendmail
> > to use procmail as the local delivery agent.
> >
>
> OK, I think it's now using procmail sucessfully.
>
> My reason for chaning over to procmail is to get the mail spool files to
> locate themselves in the users home directories i.e. $HOME/.mail, however,
> again, following the procmail docs has led me nowhere. Can anyone suggest
> a method for doing this under BSD?
I use:
(beware, there are other things as well in the patch but you will get the idea)
--- src/authenticate.c.orig Mon Apr 28 02:27:45 1997
+++ src/authenticate.c Fri Nov 12 08:36:33 1999
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
#ifndef MAILSPOOLHASH
#define MAILSPOOLHASH 0 /* 2 would deliver to /var/spool/mail/b/a/bar */
#endif
-/*#define MAILSPOOLHOME "/.mail" /* watch the leading / */
+#define MAILSPOOLHOME "/.mail" /* watch the leading / */
/* delivers to $HOME/.mail */
#define STRLEN(x) (sizeof(x)-1)
--- config.h.orig Fri Nov 12 08:36:33 1999
+++ config.h Fri Nov 12 08:36:33 1999
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
*/
#define PRESTENV {"IFS","ENV","PWD",DEFPATH,0}
-/*#define GROUP_PER_USER /* uncomment this if each
+#define GROUP_PER_USER /* uncomment this if each
user has his or her own
group and procmail can therefore trust a $HOME/.procmailrc that
is group writable or contained in a group writable home directory
--- src/autoconf.orig Wed Jan 20 18:58:20 1999
+++ src/autoconf Fri Nov 12 08:36:33 1999
@@ -832,6 +832,7 @@
else
echo "#define NO_COMSAT" >>$ACONF
fi
+echo "#define NO_COMSAT" >>$ACONF
$RM _autotst.$O
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