On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Steve Holmes wrote: > After studying things a bit more last night, I realize I was in error > about the spool spec. It looks like to me that Exim hard codes the > mail to /var/mail and I do have that folder there. I had confused the > spool with incoming mail. It's not hard coded, you can change it in the config file, by editting a line in your transport for local mailboxes. > to make things even more confusing, I have an old installation of > slackware and that one still uses /var/spool/mail for inboxes and > /var/spool/mqueue for outgoing mail. My current slackware 8.1 machine > has /var/spool/mail and /var/mail is a sym link pointing to the > former. And exim still uses /var/spool/exim for its transient stuff > after all. So I will leave as well alone:). Those symbolics are > powerful little buggers but confusing at times too. Yeah, but you've no need to stick to those if you don't want to, those paths are all configurable in Local/Makefile. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
