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From: mike@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: $MAIL w/qmail defaults to /var/mail/userid?
In-Reply-To: <20001204053306.B7848@skunkworks.area51-arpa.mil> from Chris Wasser
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To: Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com>
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Chris Wasser wrote:
> On Sun 03 Dec 2000, mike@hyperreal.org wrote:
> >   :setenv=MAIL=~/Mailbox,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES,FOO=bar:\
> 
> This won't work,

Yes it will, normally. In the man pages, login.conf(5) says:

  Capabilities that set environment variables are scanned for both `~' and
  `$' characters, which are substituted for a user's home directory and
  name respectively.

> use:
> 
> :setenv=MAIL=/home/$/Mailbox,...etc

Forgot to mention, I already tried that. Same result.


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