/home/$USER/Mailbox -> /var/spool/mail/$USER

[Diego Puertas]

Politics of my site force me to use a common directory for all
mailboxes, I recently instaled qmail in a test system and is working
fine, but I hanven't been able to configure it for using
/var/spool/mail/$USER as the mailbox.

I am using qmail 1.03, in a Linux sistem, distibution Redhat 5.2.

What I have done, unsuccesfully, is edit the file
/etc/profile.d/qmail.sh so it looks like this:

    >    appath PATH /var/qmail/bin
    >
    >    # make ~/Mailbox(Maildir) the inbox for users and
    >    # /var/qmail/alias/Mailbox(Maildir) for root
    >    if [ `id -u` = "0" ]; then
    >        if grep -q './Mailbox' /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc; then
    >            MAIL="/var/qmail/alias/Mailbox"
    >        elif grep -q './Maildir/' /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc;
then
    >            MAIL="/var/qmail/alias/Maildir/"
    >        fi
    >    else
    >        if grep -q './Mailbox' /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc; then
    >            # MODIFICATION MADE
    >            MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
    >            # END OF MODIFICATUION
    >        elif grep -q './Maildir/' /var/qmail/defaultdelivery/rc;
then
    >            MAIL="$HOME/Maildir/"
    >        fi
    >    fi
    >
    >    # Take care of MH
    >
    >    MAILDROP="$MAIL"
    >
    >    export MAIL MAILDROP

That didn't work, then I changed /var/qmail/boot/home so it contains the
line:

    >    qmail-start  /var/spool/mail/$USER  splogger  qmail

instead of:

    >    qmail-start  ./Mailbox  splogger  qmail

Didn't work either.

What am I supossed to do, I don't want to install another package.


Thanks for reading this.