Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:47:50 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> To: Paul Boehmer <pboehmer@seidata.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping Mail from Moving Home Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910281045300.30022-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991028083634.007ae4d0@seidata.com>
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I don't know about the others, but pine has a knob for this. It allows shell users to use IMAP as well... This could be a find+sed thing or just a global default when users are added - Jy@ On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Paul Boehmer wrote: > We have implemented a centralized mail directory through nfs shares on all > of our servers for our customers. We have noticed that when a user shells > into a server and runs pine,elm, or other mail client, that the contents of > /var/mail gets moved to the users directory mbox. The problem is most of > our shell users like to browse the mail with shell mail client and then use > ie/netscape to download the mail later on. When they try to download the > mail with ie/netscape, there is no mail, but if they shell into the server > and run pine, messages are there. > > Is there a way to prevent this without having to change 12k+ user files? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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