Quoth Stuart Children on Sat, Nov 13, 1999:
> Not the way I've got exim configured. Mail that had been completely
> delivered to local users sits in /var/spool/exim, not /var/spool/mail.
> This is how I want it to behave.
Why?
Vadik.
> There is no, and hasn't been, a
> /usr/spool heirarchy on this machine (not even a symlink).
>
> > Your shell or similar "knows" to look in /usr/spool/mail/$USER.
>
> But how?
> $ echo $MAIL
> /var/spool/exim/dr_claw
> that's the shell variable that needs to be set, and again, it's what I
> want - not /var/spool/mail.
>
> > I think you want to restore your pine setup, and change the exim
> > setup so that
> > SPOOL_DIRECTORY=/usr/spool/mail
> > or
> > SPOOL_DIRECTORY=/var/spool/mail
>
> The mail isn't there though. Exim is (completely correctly - as I have
> configured it) delivering mail to /var/spool/exim. If I let Pine look in
> /var/spool/mail, then it won't find anything. I guess Pine is compiled to
> look in /var/spool/mail on RH systems. I've changed its config and it's
> fine now, and I'm happy with that.
>
> The problem is the program that looks to see if you have any mail when you
> login (and so reports "You have new mail." or "No mail.". Can someone
> please let me know what does this, and how it is configured (if it needs
> to be be recompiled, that's no problem). It is looking in
> /var/spool/mail, which is no longer the correct place on my system. I've
> been suggested symlinking /var/spool/mail to /var/spool/exim, and this
> works fine. I'm not completely happy however, as I like to know why
> things are behaving as they are.
>
> TIA,
>
> - Stuart -
>
>
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