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Date:      Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:36:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      mike@hyperreal.org
To:        bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MAIL set by whom?
Message-ID:  <20010121193633.16438.qmail@hyperreal.org>

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Someone forwarded me Bjorn's post.

> You can set MAIL via /etc/login.conf, all applications that use
> either login(1) or setusercontext(3) should work.
>
> Beware of ssh! The OpenSSH client, that is part of FreeBSD is
> completey buggy here: It sets MAIL to /var/mail/$USER, this is
> hardcoded. I have a dirty fix, maybe I'll clean it up and
> send it as a PR or to Kris (Kris, are you still ssh maintainer?)

(FYI)

On Jan 11 I posted to the freebsd-questions and openssh-unix-dev lists the
following. I received no replies. This is just a workaround, not a
solution, really.

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