On 2003-09-27, Michael Mansour wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using sendmail on RH8. What I'd like to do is > modify the standard delivery of mail from: > > /var/spool/mail/$USERNAME > > to the > > /home/mail > > > directory. I want to do this as it will help in quota > setup. > > I've thought of the easiest approach by just moving > /var/spool/mail to /home/mail and creating a softlink > from /var/spool to /home/mail but I'd rather do this > via the sendmail program. Looking at the sendmail FAQ > it said it uses procmail to do the delivery. Looking > at the procmail FAQ's things start to get hard to > understand. Trying to join any of the procmail mailing > lists fail. > This is how the top of my /home/.procmailrc looks like (for filtering my mail to /home/mail):
# Please check if all the paths in PATH are reachable, remove the ones # that # are not. # PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/local/bin:. #MAILDIR=$DEFAULT # If I want to use /var/spool/mail MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # You'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail.log #VERBOSE=yes VERBOSE=no LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail HTH. Cheers, Helgi Örn -- What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton on its peak. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
