Re: setting the system mail location
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 02:39:12PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> On 04/20/2013 02:19 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> >My system mail is getting sent to $HOME/Mail/mbox instead of to
> >/var/spool/mail/rob. I may have set that on purpose a long time ago,
> >but I don't remember. I'd like it to go to the normal mail spool now.
> >How do I set that?
> >
> >-Rob
> >
>
> Check /etc/aliases and/or man 5 aliases
>
Thanks for the tip, but that wasn't it.
I found that the problem was my .procmailrc file. I didn't realize that
got called for each incoming message. I thought maybe it had to be
called from fetchmail (which I had disabled), but I was wrong about
that. So anyway, problem solved.
-Rob
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