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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news1.best.com!news.idiom.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!bofh.noc.best.net!ennui From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: alternate placement of mail file Date: 7 Jul 1997 15:45:57 -0700 Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5prrj5$4b3$1@bofh.noc.best.net> References: <5prq6l$jon$1@bad-news.harborcom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ennui.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44062 In article <5prq6l$jon$1@bad-news.harborcom.net>, <mfisher@harborcom.net> wrote: >Is there any way that I can get the system to recognize alternate >placements of mail files? Setting environment variable MAIL seems to work for most stuff. >Also, we are contemplating a move of the customer shell machine >at my ISP. One of the considerations in this is the mail delivery >once the new system is in place. Is is easy to pop mail from >/home/$USER/mail or whatever we will do with it? Yes. IMAP would probably be a better method, but POP3 will be able to do it. >Would this >require that the popper daemon be recompiled, or since it would be >a system-wide change, is there a relatively trivial way of >accomplishing this? I would assume that changing the popper's configuration will probably be necessary. You should check your source code. There is certainly no trivial way of accomplishing this from a sysadmin point of view. rone -- rone's rules: Ron Echeverri - I don't care. Systems/Usenet Administration - It's not important. Best Internet Communications - Leave me alone. rone@best.net