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From: mfisher@harborcom.net
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: alternate placement of mail file
Date: 7 Jul 1997 22:22:13 GMT
Organization: Harbor Communications
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Is there any way that I can get the system to recognize alternate
placements of mail files?

Using procmail, I have made it so that all of my mail is saved to
~/mail/INBOX rather than /var/mail/$USER .

Now, I have noticed that when I log in, I do not get the message
that I have new mail.  This is not all that great of a deal to me
at this point, but I would like to know if there is an easy way to
bring this back.

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?  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?

Thanks,

Mike
- ---
"I swear - by my life and by my love of it - that I will never live
for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
 --Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_

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