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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:36:12 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        John Bolster <j.bol@gte.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Please HELP!! email configuration
Message-ID:  <20010111093612.B57101@itouchnz.itouch>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBKLANMLAKACFKNODOGEKECLAA.j.bol@gte.net>; from j.bol@gte.net on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:29:20PM -0500
References:  <6C5913137AC8D4119A1800902794313E10504F@ISTECH4> <NEBBKLANMLAKACFKNODOGEKECLAA.j.bol@gte.net>

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:29:20PM -0500, John Bolster wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've never done this; but would a symbolic link from
> > /usr/home/user/mbox to
> > /var/mail/user/mbox fix the problem?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> It's not /var/mail/user/mbox, it's /var/mail/user, like /var/mail/john. The
> john file is the actual mailbox. I know imap is looking for a file named
> INBOX. Would your method still work?

The INBOX refers the user's system mailbox not the file INBOX; in your
example this would be /var/mail/john.
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