Email delivery

[Robert Nichols]

Tim Alberts wrote:
> Question, where is it configured (in FC6) with sendmail/procmail that 
> mail is delivered to /var/spool/mail/<user>?
> 
> I see in the sendmail.cf that the mqueue is configured, but I use the m4 
> and there's nothing that says where mail is delivered.  I figured at 
> first it was a procmail configuration, but all it does (with my setup) 
> is send it to spamassassin.  I'm thinking the sendmail m4 line:
> 
> FEATURE(local_procmail, `', `procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
> 
> is setting the delivery location from the parameter $h and the user from 
> $u?

Sendmail invokes procmail as a delivery agent.  Procmail, in the
absence of any config file settings to the contrary, delivers to
its compiled-in default of /var/mail/<user>.  You'll find that
/var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail.

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