Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:33:35 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAIL set by whom? Message-ID: <20010121113334.P253@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <3A6A50F3.307C9E06@nisser.com>; from roelof@nisser.com on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:01:07AM %2B0100 References: <3A6A50F3.307C9E06@nisser.com>
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:01 +0100, Roelof Osinga wrote:
>
> The following is what i've got:
>
> nl:~$ grep MAIL /etc/*
You better may do something like
find /etc -type f -print | xargs grep -wn MAIL /dev/null
which walks the complete /etc tree and only greps in regular
files. You might find /etc/defaults and friends of interest,
too, sometimes. The /dev/null thingy is a "trick" to make grep
display a file name even if it has only one "real" file to grep
through.
[ cutting down your list to 'grep -w' output :) ]
[ your lines were wrapped, too, without being marked as such;
PLONK your mail frontend for this stupidity (why don't you use
mutt?) ]
>
> /etc/login.conf:#
> :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\
> /etc/login.conf:
> :setenv=MAIL=/home/$/Maildir/,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES:\
> /etc/login.conf:# :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K:\
> /etc/services:ni-mail 61/tcp #NI MAIL
> /etc/services:ni-mail 61/udp #NI MAIL
[ inserting your complaint from below ]
> The above /etc/login.conf parts don't do the trick and other
> occurrences of MAIL I can't find.
Have you looked at what sections these MAIL settings are in?
That "these don't do the trick" may have a reason. Issue some
grep -n '^[a-z][a-z]*:' /etc/login.conf
which (together with the above -wn) should give you the idea. Or
alternatively open /etc/login.conf with your favourite $PAGER to
eyeball it, grep output is not always meant for human reception.
> nl:~$ grep MAIL *
You're absolutely missing _all_ your _config_ files! :) Use
grep -w MAIL ~/.??*
> PS I've read about:
>
> nl:~$ cat .mutttrc
Check your spelling, please. This might have been in your
message only, but when it's in your $HOME, it "won't do the
trick". :> And I would better move to the ~/.mutt/muttrc scheme
which in presence of all the address books, included configs and
stuff leaves your $HOME sane und mostly uncluttered.
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