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List:       linux-admin
Subject:    Re: What determiens where email is stored?
From:       "Adam Lang" <aalang () rutgersinsurance ! com>
Date:       2004-05-13 20:37:04
Message-ID: 03d201c4392a$0cef1020$530a0a0a () rutgersinsurance ! com
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haha
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aitor Benito" <abm175@euskalnet.net>
To: <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: What determiens where email is stored?


> my apologies... this is a bit offtopic, but is what came to my mind when
> you started this thread about sendmail's configuration... ;)
>
> http://comic.escomposlinux.org/ecol-65-e.png
>
>
> Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> > Matt Howard wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>I am using Sendmail with procmail as the local mailer.
> >>>
> >>>Currently all the mail is stored on my mail server in
> >>>/var/spool/mail/<username>
> >>>
> >>>I want to move the storage to a different directory and I can not seem
> >>>to find the appropriate configuration file.
> >>
> >>Other than the symlink answer, sendmail defines this at compile time.  I
> >>know, you're thinking, "With all that crap you can configure and all
> >>the macro-expansion, they don't even let you change the mail drop?"
> >>Yeah, it's strange, but you'll find what you need in
> >>"include/sendmail/pathnames.h" from the sendmail source kit.  There
> >>should be a line that defines "_PATH_MAILDIR".  You should be able to
> >>get the source to your sendmail package (srpms, apt-get --source, or
> >>what have you), make this change, and replace the package.
> >
> >
> > The above is incorrect.
> >
> > Sendmail doesn't write to mail spools, and doesn't need to know where
> > they reside. It just feeds the message to the delivery agent (e.g.
> > procmail).
> >
> > The _PATH_MAILDIR macro is for the mail.local program, which is
> > "bundled" with sendmail. Unless you're actually using mail.local (and
> > Adam indicated that he's using procmail), it isn't relevant.
> >
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