Re: What determiens where email is stored?

[Aitor Benito <abm175@euskalnet.net>]

my apologies... this is a bit offtopic, but is what came to my mind when 
you started this thread about sendmail's configuration... ;)

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Glynn Clements wrote:

> Matt Howard wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I am using Sendmail with procmail as the local mailer.
>>>
>>>Currently all the mail is stored on my mail server in
>>>/var/spool/mail/<username>
>>>
>>>I want to move the storage to a different directory and I can not seem
>>>to find the appropriate configuration file.
>>
>>Other than the symlink answer, sendmail defines this at compile time.  I
>>know, you're thinking, "With all that crap you can configure and all
>>the macro-expansion, they don't even let you change the mail drop?" 
>>Yeah, it's strange, but you'll find what you need in
>>"include/sendmail/pathnames.h" from the sendmail source kit.  There
>>should be a line that defines "_PATH_MAILDIR".  You should be able to
>>get the source to your sendmail package (srpms, apt-get --source, or
>>what have you), make this change, and replace the package.
> 
> 
> The above is incorrect.
> 
> Sendmail doesn't write to mail spools, and doesn't need to know where
> they reside. It just feeds the message to the delivery agent (e.g. 
> procmail).
> 
> The _PATH_MAILDIR macro is for the mail.local program, which is
> "bundled" with sendmail. Unless you're actually using mail.local (and
> Adam indicated that he's using procmail), it isn't relevant.
>