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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!syix.com!bad-news.harborcom.net!ns2.harborcom.net!mfisher 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 Lines: 50 Message-ID: <5prq6l$jon$1@bad-news.harborcom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns2.harborcom.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44076 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Is there any way that I can get the system to recognize alternate placements of mail files? Using procmail, I have made it so that all of my mail is saved to ~/mail/INBOX rather than /var/mail/$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_ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBM8FsD9VhAcZAV+ntAQHVOgP+MkecF4iNkLLZfbEzgbV9RNJSEWPiIr31 AD0DDRFQnp6g/yaUBENuzL/++AgJInHUSMDmhMCW/J9N50HgVchR7LOwPKia7TDb gPk+gPk+L/mYj/kucthOE3kJ+DRwflqiNuGsJ4LRjrEN+tRxqTB92bmvZUQ++GPc FLckHNuTaJc= =yE9g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzFxc80AAAEEALZLcCPbajHCsD742a1H1APqDlcKHTMckgfW3cPMuYGdYPri fR5s8oQc91+FxPhruiWq5gCxTlbhFUvDKGs0RhQy1H/9q186e8/cSRVcobZPGggJ ZxHMa4L1nKl1OcVl8YNdZzCGzTBRhxHy1sUSzeN8yspKH6f2YdVhAcZAV+ntAAUR tCNNaWtlIEZpc2hlciA8bWZpc2hlckBoYXJib3Jjb20ubmV0PrQZbWZpc2hlckBu czIuaGFyYm9yY29tLm5ldLQqTWljaGFlbCBBLiBGaXNoZXIgPG1hZmFkbWluQGhh cmJvcmNvbS5uZXQ+ =hIX/ -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----