From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 26 13:30:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from coloradosurf.com (c1520339-a.lakwod1.co.home.com [24.179.159.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADA2537B409 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by coloradosurf.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA38936 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:34:13 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from mike) Received: (from mike@localhost) by coloradosurf.com (8.9.3/8.9.3av) id OAA38928 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:34:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from mike) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:34:11 -0600 From: mike To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Maildirs [OT?] Message-ID: <20010926143411.A38907@coloradosurf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry if this should've gone to -questions. Wasn't sure... My question is about the mail dir (where the local delivery agent puts incoming mail). It branches off into 'where does the $MAIL variable come from' (and I'm pretty sure it isn't from under the cabbage patch). Does it come from /etc/login.conf ? Is it hidden in a conf file some where? In Ted Middlestadt's book, he sez that FreeBSD puts its mail in /var/mail. This is familiar. How does one utilize the "feature" of putting mail into something like $HOME/mail. I use sendmail/procmail/cucipop for my users. The real question: Is the $MAILDIR specific to each program and therefore supported by certain MTA's LDA's and pop3 servers or is it determined somewhere in the OS and overridden by some of these programs? Grateful for any clues, direction, man pages, reference material, etc. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message