Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:04:56 +0200 From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Niek Dekker <niekdekker@gmail.com> Subject: Re: How does useradd determine the default mailbox/maildir location for new users Message-ID: <452BC4A8.6040807@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <44ac44dwct.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <452A6AA5.2010400@gmail.com> <44ac44dwct.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Niek Dekker <niekdekker@gmail.com> writes: > >> I am running Exim 4.62 MTA on FBSD 6.0_release. >> When I create a new user using useradd, a mailbox file for the new >> user is created in /var/mail. >> As I am using Maildir with maildirs in /var/mail, I do not want that. > And none of those are documented to do anything of the sort. > I think you should just write your own wrapper. You could write it as > a wrapper for adduser, or you could make your own version of adduser > (which is just a shell script). Why not just store your mail in a different directory - say /var/exim? Does it hurt your eyes if it's not called /var/mail? In login.conf you set user environment path to the user's mailbox (don't know if this is worth anything with Maildir), and configure exim to use that directory - this sounds like the easier solution. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9
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