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. ----- Forwarded message (env-from mike) -----
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