From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 12:36:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BAF37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0AKaCV57683; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:36:12 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:36:12 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: John Bolster Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please HELP!! email configuration Message-ID: <20010111093612.B57101@itouchnz.itouch> References: <6C5913137AC8D4119A1800902794313E10504F@ISTECH4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from j.bol@gte.net on Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:29:20PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche | To be is to do -- Sartre | Scooby do be do -- Scooby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message