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Re: sendmail with /var/tmp ???



Eddie Harari wrote:
>    what option in sendmail.cf tells sendmail to write dead.letter
>    in /var/tmp/ and not in ~/ ...

As far as I know (can't check verify it right now), the problem is
not that sendmail willingly uses /var/tmp, but that when a user
isn't found in /etc/passwd (and therefore there is no meaning to
"~/") or when his "home directory" points to /var/tmp.

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                   | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.         |  glory, for its people had been
chosen
Jerusalem 93 805                 |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL            amos@dsi.co.il |                     -- Anonymous


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