Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:15:35 -0800 (PST) From: mike@hyperreal.org To: Peter Lai <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: $MAIL w/qmail defaults to /var/mail/userid? Message-ID: <20001204201535.27766.qmail@hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019F0F@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu> from Peter Lai at "Dec 4, 2000 06:30:45 am"
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Peter Lai wrote: > i think mail.local is fooling around with the $MAIL variable. I don't see any evidence that mail.local is being invoked at all. > for qmail, set delivery options when calling qmail-send, as in the script > > /var/qmail/boot/home I don't see the connection between an interactive shell's environment and the environment that is set by env(1) in /var/qmail/boot/home. The latter is just for qmail-send when it is delivering mail. This script makes no reference to mail.local anyway. The problem is not where the mail is going (we want it to go into ~/Mailbox, like it is), rather it is just the fact that the $MAIL variable is being set to /var/mail/foo for users who login and want to check their mail with a client that relies on this variable (e.g., elm). - Mike ________________________________________________________________________ Mike Brown / Hyperreal | Hyperreal http://music.hyperreal.org/ PO Box 61334 | XML & XSL http://skew.org/xml/ Denver CO 80206-8334 USA | personal http://www.hyperreal.org/~mike/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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