Hello all,
I have compiled and use sendmail 8.13.8 under CentOS 3.4, with no
problem at all. What I would like to do is configure the local mailer
to deliver mails to $HOME/$USER/mbox instead of /var/mail/$USER.

Here is the relevant section of my sendmail.mc. I note, however, that
procmail is also called for delivery (although it is not specified in
sendmail.mc).

MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl

I would appreciate some to achieve this.

"grpprod" <grpprod@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all,
> I have compiled and use sendmail 8.13.8 under CentOS 3.4, with no
> problem at all. What I would like to do is configure the local mailer
> to deliver mails to $HOME/$USER/mbox instead of /var/mail/$USER.
>
> Here is the relevant section of my sendmail.mc. I note, however, that
> procmail is also called for delivery (although it is not specified in
> sendmail.mc).
>
> MAILER(local)dnl
> MAILER(smtp)dnl
>
> I would appreciate some to achieve this.

http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.3
How can I get sendmail to deliver local mail to $HOME/.mail instead of
into /usr/spool/mail (or /usr/mail)
Created: July 9, 1996 ; Last Update: January 7, 1999

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Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@onet.eu> writes:

> "grpprod" <grpprod@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello all,
>> I have compiled and use sendmail 8.13.8 under CentOS 3.4, with no
>> problem at all. What I would like to do is configure the local mailer
>> to deliver mails to $HOME/$USER/mbox instead of /var/mail/$USER.
>>
>> Here is the relevant section of my sendmail.mc. I note, however, that
>> procmail is also called for delivery (although it is not specified in
>> sendmail.mc).
>>
>> MAILER(local)dnl
>> MAILER(smtp)dnl
>>
>> I would appreciate some to achieve this.
>
> http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.3
> How can I get sendmail to deliver local mail to $HOME/.mail instead of
> into /usr/spool/mail (or /usr/mail)
> Created: July 9, 1996 ; Last Update: January 7, 1999
>
> http://anfi.homeunix.net/sendmail/B4UAsk-Sendmail.html
> Before You Ask on news:comp.mail.sendmail

Extra hints:
1) most likely sendmail uses procmail as local mailer due to presence of
FEATURE(`local_procmail') in sendmail.mc. It makes sendmail use procmail
as local mailer.

2) You can change default destination (default mailbox location) in
procmail in /etc/procmailrc or by recompilation of the sources.

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Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
> Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@onet.eu> writes:
>
>>"grpprod" <grpprod@gmail.com> writes:
>>
[...]
>>>Here is the relevant section of my sendmail.mc. I note, however, that
>>>procmail is also called for delivery (although it is not specified in
>>>sendmail.mc).
>>>
>>>MAILER(local)dnl
>>>MAILER(smtp)dnl
>>>
[...]
> Extra hints:
> 1) most likely sendmail uses procmail as local mailer due to presence of
> FEATURE(`local_procmail') in sendmail.mc. It makes sendmail use procmail
> as local mailer.

That feature is likely included with cf/ostype/linux.m4


Regards,

Kees.

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> > 1) most likely sendmail uses procmail as local mailer due to presence of
> > FEATURE(`local_procmail') in sendmail.mc. It makes sendmail use procmail
> > as local mailer.
>
> That feature is likely included with cf/ostype/linux.m4

Thank you for the replies,
the thing is I am totally unfamiliar with procmail, and obviously I am
not interested in using its advanced abilities (eg. for filtering
etc.). I just want to change the delivery location. So far I haven't
found anything ful in Google, so any good resource would be
appreciated.

Btw, and if I get it, the presence of 'OSTYPE(linux)dnl' enables the
use of procmail. So does this mean that the 'MAILER(local)dnl' line in
the main part of sendmail.mc is ignored somehow?

"grpprod" <grpprod@gmail.com> writes:

>> > 1) most likely sendmail uses procmail as local mailer due to presence of
>> > FEATURE(`local_procmail') in sendmail.mc. It makes sendmail use procmail
>> > as local mailer.
>>
>> That feature is likely included with cf/ostype/linux.m4
>
> Thank you for the replies,
> the thing is I am totally unfamiliar with procmail, and obviously I am
> not interested in using its advanced abilities (eg. for filtering
> etc.). I just want to change the delivery location. So far I haven't
> found anything ful in Google, so any good resource would be
> appreciated.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....65e230c1ed8f0f
news:39BD1078.DAAC2E96@anfi.freeshell.org
From: Andrzej Filip <a...@bigfoot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: A procmail question...
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:53:00 GMT
<quote>
I think it may be what you want

/etc/procmailrc :
#v+
:0c
* LOGNAME ?? ^[a-z0-9]+$
* ? test "/home/$LOGNAME" = "$HOME"
{
ORGMAIL="$HOME/mail"
DEFAULT="$ORGMAIL"
}
#v-

You may hack procmail code directly but
/etc/procmailrc is more flexible (IMHO).

HTH
</quote>

It should change default mailbox location after some "sanity checks" to
avoid changes for "special accounts" without "normal" home directory
such as (usually) news or uucp.

> Btw, and if I get it, the presence of 'OSTYPE(linux)dnl' enables the
> use of procmail. So does this mean that the 'MAILER(local)dnl' line in
> the main part of sendmail.mc is ignored somehow?

FEATURE(`local_procmail') makes sendmail use procmail in sendmail.cf
parts generated by MAILER(`local').

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> It should change default mailbox location after some "sanity checks" to
> avoid changes for "special accounts" without "normal" home directory
> such as (usually) news or uucp.
>
It works like a charm!
One more thing: I usually sort my users in groups, so it may be the
case that something like this exist:

/home/group1/user1
/home/group2/user2

I would appreciate some on how to alter the sanity check to
accommodate this.

"grpprod" <grpprod@gmail.com> writes:

>> It should change default mailbox location after some "sanity checks" to
>> avoid changes for "special accounts" without "normal" home directory
>> such as (usually) news or uucp.
>>
> It works like a charm!
> One more thing: I usually sort my users in groups, so it may be the
> case that something like this exist:
>
> /home/group1/user1
> /home/group2/user2
>
> I would appreciate some on how to alter the sanity check to
> accommodate this.

It may be what you want in your /etc/procmailrc

#v+
:0c
* LOGNAME ?? ^^[a-z0-9]+^^
* HOME ?? ^^/home/[a-z0-9]+/\/[a-z0-9]+^^
* MATCH ? test "$MATCH" = "$LOGNAME"
{
ORGMAIL="$HOME/mail"
DEFAULT="$ORGMAIL"
}
#v-

* procmail uses ^^ for matching both string start and string end.
* MATCH contains part of string right of \/


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