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How can I change the default system mailbox (/usr/mail/logname or /usr/spool/mail/logname) ?

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From: Daniel Huber
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 15:20
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In SysV-Systems the default system-mailbox is /usr/mail/logname.
In BSD-Systems the default system-mailbox is /usr/spool/mail/logname.

I want to change these defaults to $HOME/mailbox.
How can I do that?

Daniel
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From: huber@aut.UUCP (Daniel Huber)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: How can I change the default system mailbox (/usr/mail/logname or /usr/spool/mail/logname) ?
Keywords: mailbox
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Date: 6 Mar 90 15:20:41 GMT
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, CH-3073 Guemligen Switzerland
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