Re: tlug: Mail directory

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 02:55:13PM +0000, Darren Cook wrote:
> I've been having trouble seeing locally delivered mail (which is in
> /var/mail/ ).
/var/spool/mail is the more traditional place for Linux.

> man mail says:
>    -u  is equivalent to: mail -f /var/mail/user
Mine (from mailx) says:            /var/spool/mail/user

> I've made the symbolic link so the problem has kind of gone away, but I'm
> wondering if this is hard-coded into mail, or is a setting somewhere on my
> system? If the latter, can someone point me to the likely file?

The mailx implementation of mail (and many (most?) other mail user agents)
can take their path to a user's mailbox from the MAIL environment variable.
I like to deliver to home directories, so I have MAIL="$HOME/Mailbox" in my
/etc/profile for example.

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Jim Tittsler, Tokyo   ICQ: 5981586

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