Xref: utzoo comp.sys.att:4396 comp.unix.questions:9543 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!rutgers!att!westmark!dave From: dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: changing mail directory Keywords: sysV Message-ID: <390@westmark.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 88 01:00:11 GMT References: <286@mccc.UUCP> Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 22 In article <286@mccc.UUCP>, pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes: > SysV puts incoming mail in /usr/mail/. Is there a way to change > that (without patching source code)? I thought that the MAIL > environmental variable controlled the destination, but someone suggested > that since it is uucp that is "logging in" and is using uucici as its > shell, it doesn't look at MAIL. The problem is that your MAIL environment variable is your own. You can change it when you log in, but it doesn't change the value used by everyone else on your machine, especially rmail -- the process spawned by the uux rmail command that is received and processed by uucico when mail is received on your machine. You will probably need to re-compile rmail to accomplish what you want. -- Dave Levenson Westmark, Inc. The Man in the Mooney Warren, NJ USA {rutgers | att}!westmark!dave