[500] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: mods to sendmail for AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Vogels)
Tue Dec 17 17:35:17 1991
To: wdg@mosaic.uncc.edu (doug gullett)
Cc: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Dec 91 15:57:51 EST."
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 22:19:19 +0000
From: Werner Vogels <werner@freya.inesc.pt>
> I spoke to someone at AFSUG that said that they had modified the
> source to sendmail to deposit mail in a users home directory instead
> of /var/spool/mail. Unfortunately I forgot the persons name (SORRY)!!
> If anyone has done this I'd love to get a set of diffs or even hints
> so that I won't have to re-invent your changes.
There is absolutely no need for chances to the sendmail source. Sendmail
may be a dragon to configure but it is configurable and especially in the
are of delivering mail. Use as the local mailer as program that drops the
mail into the user home directory.
If some source could be changed it would be that of /bin/mail that is the
local mail delivery program in most cases. The program source is reasonable
trivial: look for the code that handles the -d (deliverymode) flag and make
some small chances there. If you change /bin/mail you problably don't need
to reconfigure sendmail.
> thanks,
> Doug Gullett
> University of NC at Charlotte
Werner Vogels
Distributed Systems and Industrial Automation Group
INESC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores
Rua Alves Redol, 9-6o - 1000 Lisboa - Portugal
Tel: +351 1 3155150 ext 280, Fax: +351 1 525843,
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