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

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From: Daniel Huber
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 08:26

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In article <1168@telsys.aut.UUCP> huber@aut.UUCP (Daniel Huber) writes:
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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?

What I want to know :

How can I set up the mail delivery directly to the "home-mailbox"
and not to the system-mailbox first.
When I login in a machine (not my home-machine) and I have installed 
Yellow Pages, I get my home-directory automatically. But what's with
my mail?

Daniel

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Subject: Re: How can I change the default system mailbox (/usr/mail/logname or /usr/spool/mail/logname) ?
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Date: 7 Mar 90 08:26:01 GMT
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