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From: andy@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andy S Poling)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Changing System Default Mail Box Location??
Summary: set in /usr/lib/aliases
Keywords: mailbox system default sendmail .mailrc
Message-ID: <6712@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 25 Oct 90 19:59:00 GMT
References: <144053@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <144053@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> petej@itcode.Eng.Sun.COM (Pete Jolly) writes:
>I am having problems getting a users default mailbox
>changed.  His system mailbox is located on the
>/var/spool/mail directory and due to the amount of mail
>he is getting, he would rather have it located on another 
>partition.  I tried to set the MAIL variable in his .mailrc
>file and that works okay for reading mail but sendmail still
>insists on putting received mail in /var/spool/mail/username.
>I have been looking through the sendmail documentation to look
>for an obvious way to change this but have not had any luck.
>
>Anyone with any ideas out there??

Just put an alias for that user in /usr/lib/aliases like the following:

username: /other/partition/user-home-directory/mailbox

-Andy

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