Qmail delivering mail ~/Mailbox home directories
Q. I have installed and configured qmail successfully. Everything is working fine except that mail for loacal user can not be read using mail command. How do I fix this problem?
A. If you are delivering mail into ~/Mailbox for each user instead of /var/mail directory, you need to setup few things so that mail can read using mail and other command line tools.
Type following command at shell prompt:
$ MAIL=$HOME/Mailbox
$ export MAIL
Now type mail or mutt command to read mail from local mail box:
OR
$ mutt
You need to make sure that the MAIL environment variable for all of your users is set to $HOME/Mailbox instead of its default value in /var/mail.
Open your /etc/profile (bash/sh shell) and add following lines:
# vi /etc/profile
Append following lines:
MAIL=$HOME/Mailbox
export MAIL
Save the changes.
If you are using CSH shell open and add following lines:
# vi /etc/csh.cshrc
Append following lines:
setenv MAIL $HOME/Mailbox
Save the changes.
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