Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:28:47 +0100 (BST) From: Spork Admin <admin@spork.spods.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: mail.local Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007241326340.5051-100000@spork.spods.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <NEBBKKFCGLCOKOEIADGKEEOICAAA.keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > Can anyone tell me what calls mail.local at bootup time? I'm using > > FreeBSD 4.1-RC and wish to change the local mailer for procmail. > > It won't let me touch mail.local, I can only assume because it is in use. > > mail.local is called by the `local' mailer of sendmail. > you can recofigure your sendmail to use procmail instead of mail.local > for the local delivery agent. > > see the following features of sendmail's master-config file: > > FEATURE(local_procmail) > MAILER(procmail) > > > Also, can anyone suggest if I should simply mv mail.local, and symlink it > > to procmail, or should I actually change whatever it is that calls > > mail.local at bootup. > > no need to mess with things like that. > you can simple reconfigure your sendmail > to use procmail as the local delivery agent. > OK, I think it's now using procmail sucessfully. My reason for chaning over to procmail is to get the mail spool files to locate themselves in the users home directories i.e. $HOME/.mail, however, again, following the procmail docs has led me nowhere. Can anyone suggest a method for doing this under BSD? S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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