From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 13:59:19 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 13:59:17 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu (resnet.resnet.uconn.edu [137.99.156.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1149A37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:56:36 -0500 Message-ID: <9F36E367710D474E9806AA393FE737FB019F17@resnetnt.resnet.uconn.edu> From: Peter Lai To: "'mike@hyperreal.org '" , Peter Lai Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org '" Subject: RE: $MAIL w/qmail defaults to /var/mail/userid? Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:56:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ohhh ok. How about setting /etc/csh.cshrc or /etc/profile to set $MAIL every time the user logs in? -----Original Message----- From: mike@hyperreal.org To: Peter Lai Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: 12/4/2000 3:15 PM Subject: Re: $MAIL w/qmail defaults to /var/mail/userid? 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