[comp.mail.sendmail] biff

ssi@usfvax2.EDU (Ssi) (11/03/88)

We have 5 clients and a file server. I would like to centralize
the mail spool in a public directory ie. /usr2/mail/somename .
My users are very likely to log in on different machines during
the day, also serveral people are likely to use the same login
name. I know I can send mail(1) to a full path name instead of
to a login name. How can I get biff(1) to watch for mail sent
to a pathname instead to user@machine ???
                          Greg Ripp PH: (813)628-6100

guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) (11/04/88)

>I know I can send mail(1) to a full path name instead of
>to a login name. How can I get biff(1) to watch for mail sent
>to a pathname instead to user@machine ???

Well, you can modify "sendmail" to notify the "comsat" daemon whenever
it stuffs mail into a file - assuming you can figure out which user to
notify (perhaps the owner of the file?)

You can't do it with the vanilla software, however.