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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
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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
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