change default location of sendmail users mailbox

tanveer · 03-06-2007, 09:55 AM

Hi all:
Is there any way to change the default mail delivery location from /var/spool/mail/username to each users home directory like /home/usename.
Because I want to setup mailbox quota on them and tried quota settings in /var but it didn't worked. Now if I can change the default mail delivery location then I just have to setup quota in /home which is very easy.

Please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

tanveer · 03-06-2007, 10:26 AM

I found that the enviroment value $MAIL contains the value where to post the mail. may be changing this value to $HOME/$USER will do the trick.
Please let me know.

tanveer · 03-06-2007, 10:50 AM

I have changed the value of MAIL to MAIL="/home/$USER" where it was written as MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER" in /etc/profile.

But it didn't worked as I expected. Now it not even send mail in /var/spool/mail. What could be wrong?
Sending mail locally using
# mail -v user1
and its saying status is sent so everything seems fine though.

nics · 04-30-2007, 05:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tanveer

I have changed the value of MAIL to MAIL="/home/$USER" where it was written as MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER" in /etc/profile.

But it didn't worked as I expected. Now it not even send mail in /var/spool/mail. What could be wrong?
Sending mail locally using
# mail -v user1
and its saying status is sent so everything seems fine though.

set quota on /var partition as mailbox is in /var/spool/mail.then change the home directory while addidg new users to /var by going to /etc/default/useradd. and changing HOME=/var.. for already existing users. do "mv /home/user /var/user" and change their home directory to /var...
hope it works

tanveer · 05-03-2007, 11:42 PM

hi thanks for your reply.
I solved that without changing the default location of users that is /home. Just setup disk quota on /var and it handled the quota for users mailboxes. Now trying to send a bounce message to sender if users quota full.

Thanks.