Hi yall,
Thanks to the following people and their quick response:
Tony Ching-Tung Wu <tonywu@transend.com.tw>
Matthew Stier - Imonics Corporation <matthew.stier@imonics.com>
"Patrick O'Brien" <pobrien@cfa.harvard.edu
daves@adnc.com (David Schiffrin)
Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
The answer was to:
1) Hack the daemon that deliver local mail: /usr/lib/mail.local.
For more detail on it look at the man page.
One way is to recompile it (but so far I found only BSD versions)
Another way is to replace it with something else, such as:
smail, or procmail. If so, do not forget to change sendmail.cf
Mlocal entry.
2) /usr/lib/sendmail has also the "/var/mail/spool" directory
hardcoded in it. To fix it, get the sendmail source code and
recompile it. Also change the spooling directory in the
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf if needed.
3) If (1) & (2) have been done sucessfully, then fix the path for user
mail/mailx/mailtool.
One way is to set the MAIL environment to point to the new directory.
Another way is to add some rc file in /etc/mail namely mailx.rc
Mail.rc, e.g:
set MAIL /newdir/$LOGNAME
Hope that this summary will help anyone who may hit the same problem!
FYI, I found this from the sendmail FAQ:
> * How can I get sendmail to deliver local mail to $HOME/.mail
> instead of into /usr/spool/mail (or /usr/mail)?
>
> Again, this is a local mailer issue, not a sendmail issue.
> Either modify your local mailer (source code will be
> required) or change the program called in the "local" mailer
> configuration description to be a new program that does this
> local delivery. One program that is capable of doing this is
> "procmail", although there are probably many others as well.
>
> You might be interested in reading the paper ``HLFSD:
> Delivering Email to your $HOME'' available in the Proceedings
> of the USENIX System Administration (LISA VII) Conference
> (November 1993). This is also available via public FTP from
> ftp.cs.columbia.edu in /pub/hlfsd/{README.hlfsd,hlfsd.ps}.
Regards,
Georges Chan.
PS: Sorry for my .signature if it causes some inconveniences.
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