At 5:14 PM -0700 1/2/01, Dan Trainor wrote:
> I know qpopper doesn't directly support this, or somehting along those lines
> according to the readome, but I am trying to get my mail server to store
> mail in local user directories rather than /var/spool/mail. There are a
> couple reasons for this, and one is a major one which seems real odd:
>
> Say I have 2 users, with the local usernames user1 and user2. They both
> have the same mail prefix ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]). When sendmail,
> or procmail, or whatever, stores mail for what should be two different local
> users (user1 and user2), it stores the mail as /var/spool/mail/user, so if
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] was to get an email first, all email from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> would go to [EMAIL PROTECTED], regardless of the local username.
>
> This doesn't seem right.. any suggestions?
Normally the spool is named after the user, not the email address.
So if 'user@host1,com' is an alias for 'user1', and
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is an alias for 'user2', then mail addressed to
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is delivered into '/var/spool/mail/user1'.
So you don't need to use homedir mail. By the way, Qpopper does
support that ('--enable-home-dir-mail'). See the INSTALL file.
>
>
> Dan Trainor
> Systems Administrator
> Concept Factory, LLC.
> www.concept-factory.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
