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From: eric@mammoth.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman)
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Subject: Re: How can I change the default system mailbox (/usr/mail/logname or /usr/spool/mail/logname) ?
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Date: 12 Mar 90 18:53:07 GMT
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In article <1168@telsys.aut.UUCP>, huber@aut.UUCP (Daniel Huber) writes:
> In SysV-Systems the default system-mailbox is /usr/mail/logname.
> In BSD-Systems the default system-mailbox is /usr/spool/mail/logname.
> 
> I want to change these defaults to $HOME/mailbox.
> How can I do that?

You can write your own delivery mechanism, and change the definition of
the "local" mailer in sendmail.cf to use this instead of /bin/mail.
Don't forget to do locking on the mailbox.

You will then have to change all your mail readers to use this file as
well -- you're on your own for that.  Remember, however, to do the locking
in each of them as well.

eric