From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 28 9: 1:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927D914CA6 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:01:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1462 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:47:54 -0500 (CDT) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-7) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:47:50 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt To: Paul Boehmer Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping Mail from Moving Home In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991028083634.007ae4d0@seidata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I don't know about the others, but pine has a knob for this. It allows shell users to use IMAP as well... This could be a find+sed thing or just a global default when users are added - Jy@ On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Paul Boehmer wrote: > We have implemented a centralized mail directory through nfs shares on all > of our servers for our customers. We have noticed that when a user shells > into a server and runs pine,elm, or other mail client, that the contents of > /var/mail gets moved to the users directory mbox. The problem is most of > our shell users like to browse the mail with shell mail client and then use > ie/netscape to download the mail later on. When they try to download the > mail with ie/netscape, there is no mail, but if they shell into the server > and run pine, messages are there. > > Is there a way to prevent this without having to change 12k+ user files? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message