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Re: locking in non-default mailspool dir

1998-11-12 12:12:56

Did you also change it in ../autoconf.h?

Yes, that is I changed it in autoconf which created autoconf.h with the 
correct spool dir
#define MAILSPOOLDIR "/sd3/mail/"
 (with trailing slash).

I thought maybe it's the permissions but they are exactly the same as for the 
/var/spool/mail  setup that works fine (with 3.10 btw):

/var/spool/mail = root.mail and drwxrwxr_x
maildrops = <uid>.<ugid>
lockfiles = <uid>.<ugid> and _r________

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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Mark Tiramani wrote:

Hello all (first time on this list),

Appologies if this has already been answered in the recent past:

Linux 2.0.35
sendmail 8.9.0
procmail v3.11pre7 globally invoked from sendmail

I need to use a non-standard mailspool dir for reasons I won't go into 
now....
The chosen mailspool is on a seperate partition: /sd3/mail
Permissions are the same as for /var/spool/mail
MAILSPOOLDIR in authenticate.c has been set:
#define MAILSPOOLDIR        "/sd3/mail/"
Mail is delivered just fine but lockfiles are completely ignored.
I create my own lockfiles with my own pop3 mail server and this has worked 
very nicely on several systems using the default /var/spool/mail for many 
months.


Mark Tiramani
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