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RE: Change the location of user mailbox

2003-04-10 12:25:21
Sean,

        At the moment redhat gives the email in /var/spool/mail/victor (for
the user victor)

        In /etc/passwd I have:

                victor:x:500:500::/home/victor:/bin/bash       (for the user
victor)

        It is possible to give the mail in /home/victor/victor instead of
giving it in /var/spool/mail/victor ?

Regards, Victor. 

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Enviado el: miércoles, 09 de abril de 2003 21:36
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Asunto: Re: Change the location of user mailbox


At 01:43 2003-04-10 +0200, 'Dallman Ross' did say:
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 05:17:45PM -0300, Víctor Villar wrote:

 I need to use the home directory of the user, defined in the
/etc/passwd file, not a diferent folder from /var/spool/mail, is it
posible ?

On rereading this several times, I have come to the conclusion
that you are asking about changing directories in order to write
to a specific other dir.  Is that a valid conclusion of mine?

I'm thinking _not_.  The question, as worded implies that it is for other 
users, actually from /etc/passwd.

If this is for an ~/.procmailrc then:

         MAILDIR=$HOME

Would work, but if there's no ~/.procmailrc (or, if this is a desired 
systemwide setting), for procmail to deliver elsewhere without the benefit 
of a .procmailrc telling it as much, then recompiling is necessary.

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  Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering

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