From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 12:15:39 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 12:15:36 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBAAC37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:15:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 27767 invoked by uid 12); 4 Dec 2000 20:15:35 -0000 Message-ID: <20001204201535.27766.qmail@hyperreal.org> From: mike@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: $MAIL w/qmail defaults to /var/mail/userid? In-Reply-To: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019F0F@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu> from Peter Lai at "Dec 4, 2000 06:30:45 am" To: Peter Lai Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:15:35 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL60 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Lai wrote: > i think mail.local is fooling around with the $MAIL variable. I don't see any evidence that mail.local is being invoked at all. > for qmail, set delivery options when calling qmail-send, as in the script > > /var/qmail/boot/home I don't see the connection between an interactive shell's environment and the environment that is set by env(1) in /var/qmail/boot/home. The latter is just for qmail-send when it is delivering mail. This script makes no reference to mail.local anyway. The problem is not where the mail is going (we want it to go into ~/Mailbox, like it is), rather it is just the fact that the $MAIL variable is being set to /var/mail/foo for users who login and want to check their mail with a client that relies on this variable (e.g., elm). - Mike ________________________________________________________________________ Mike Brown / Hyperreal | Hyperreal http://music.hyperreal.org/ PO Box 61334 | XML & XSL http://skew.org/xml/ Denver CO 80206-8334 USA | personal http://www.hyperreal.org/~mike/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message