sendmail: mail.local delivers to /var/mail/ not /var/spool/mail
Steve Wills
steve at stevenwills.com
Thu Jan 8 14:00:42 EST 2004
Joseph Mack NA3T said:
>
> thanks
Glad to help.
> I grep'ed the whole directory and missed it.
I know the feeling, I used to do that all the time, then I discovered
egrep -iRl. :)
> Is anything going to bight me by moving this? My last version of sendmail
> delivered to /var/spool/mail and the current one is working with a link
> from /var/mail to /var/spool/mail.
I doubt it, you should be able to put your mail spool wherever you want.
On the other hand, I'm tend not to move things from standard/default
places unless I have to, since it makes it easier for myself and others to
find things.
Just my $0.02,
Steve
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