[SOLVED] Change mail spool location

skuzye · 03-02-2010, 12:05 PM

Is there a way to change the mail spool location from /var/mail/ to some other place? I'm thinking of users own home directory or $HOME/.mail.

This is because system partition is not big enough to keep all mail from the company and /home is in a different one.

Creating another partition to keep /var or /var/mail seems too much just to keep emails.

What would you suggest?

Solution:

checking /usr/doc/procmail-x.xx/examples/advanced

Chuck56 · 03-02-2010, 12:23 PM

Yes. Slackware uses procmail as the local delivery agent (LDA) and is setup to deliver to local users in /var/spool/mail/user. Each user would need a local ~/.procmailrc file to tell procmail where the user's mail box is

Code:

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I hope I have the format right. It's been a while since I made a similar conversion.

[EDIT] Thanks dive! You are correct in post #3. I delete the misleading info from my post. [/EDIT]

dive · 03-02-2010, 12:35 PM

Procmail should be enabled by default. All you need to do I think is for each user to edit .procmailrc

skuzye · 03-02-2010, 01:48 PM

What if I catch every message that went all filters and didn't match any and throw in an custom inbox?

The problem would be then changing uw imap to locate that file.

dive · 03-02-2010, 02:19 PM

Not sure I understand you. Any message that doesn't get caught by procmail filters gets put in whatever DEFAULT is set to in procmailrc.

skuzye · 03-02-2010, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dive

Not sure I understand you. Any message that doesn't get caught by procmail filters gets put in whatever DEFAULT is set to in procmailrc.

Sorry.. What I meant was to make one last filter that catches every message so if the message wasn't caught by a prior filter it is caught now.

My procmail is deliverying any left message to /var/mail/ or /var/spool/mail (sorry I'm at home now, don't really know for sure).

dive · 03-02-2010, 05:05 PM

If you set DEFAULT=$HOME/mail/somedefaultbox it will go there.

Chuck56 · 03-02-2010, 05:41 PM

There are examples with explanation in /usr/doc/procmail-x.xx/examples that will help understand and create .procmailrc files.

skuzye · 03-03-2010, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck56

There are examples with explanation in /usr/doc/procmail-x.xx/examples that will help understand and create .procmailrc files.

Exactly. I found what I needed in procmail-x.xx/examples/advanced

Thanks a lot!