Anybody working on removing sendmail from base?

Tim tim at sleepy.wojomedia.com
Fri Sep 26 11:27:57 PDT 2003


On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 07:08:27PM +0100, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> : If anybody is interested, I also have a patch to STABLE's login from
> : some time ago that adds checking ~/Maildir at login (FreeBSD's login
> : doesn't care whether MAIL is a directory, so people who set their MAIL
> : to ~/Maildir always get "You have mail.".
> :
> : http://www.flipthejig.net/login.diff
> 
> 	Timothy,
> 
> 	Shouldn't this be something that the shell should do?

  Indeed.  I run a slightly modified version of mdcheckmail.pl
(mdcheckmail was written for xbiff) as my precmd alias in tcsh.
Works like a charm and despite being a Perl script, I've never noticed
any slowdowns on a measley Celeron 333.

  Tim





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