Re: mail

From: Lowell Gilbert (freebsd-questions-local_at_be-well.ilk.org)
Date: 08/31/05

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    To: John Larson <johnwlarson3rd@yahoo.com>
Date: 31 Aug 2005 17:09:23 -0400

    John Larson <johnwlarson3rd@yahoo.com> writes:

    > how do I make mail read the mail. I can read mail
    > using mail -f mail. mail being a file that is created
    > when mail is sent to a specific user. I have set the
    > folder in the home directory .mailrc. what other
    > changes do I need to make.

    According to "man mail", it should respect the MAIL environment
    variable. [The default, /var/mail, is where sendmail leaves messages
    unless you specifically configure mail to be put elsewhere.]
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