i'm glad to hear that :-) basically, (or on a common configuration - usually out of the box) the sendmail daemon (or any other mailserver you use) has whats called "local mailbox" and it is located (if i'm not wrong) usually at "/var/mail/<username>". then a mail client (AKA. pine, mail, etc.) reads that file and usually saves it in the user homedir in its own DB format (classic unix-mailers like pine and mail uses .mbox)
This is in general how unixmail works on local machine. Noam On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 23:12, Arie Folger wrote: > Sagi wrote: > > What do you mean by "no mail account"? What does the system do with mail > > that is sent locally? I guess you mean that you cannot fetch it remotly > > using POP3/IMAP. > > I thought that the users had no email account whatsoever, however I tried your > suggestion to use a .forward file, and to my pleasant surprise it worked. > > Arie Folger > -- > It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man > who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as > he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable. > -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Noam Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 4853872 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
