Ubuntu Server 9.4 - mail is stored in ~/Maildir AND /var/mail/

[Hannes]

Thanks,

This was the answer I was waiting for....something nobody knows and I 
think I wouldn't had found out in 30 years...:-)

thanks a lot!
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:10:36PM +0100, Hannes wrote:
>
>         ...........snip............
>
>   
>> The procmailrc files all look similar to this:
>>
>> UMASK=007
>> PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
>> MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
>> LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
>> SHELL=/bin/bash
>>
>> :0:
>> * ^To:.*name at domain.com
>> $HOME/Maildir/
>>         How can I disable this?
>>     
>
> In ~./.procmailrc:
>
> DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/<filename>
>
> If you do this you shouldn't need the recipe.
>
> Comment out anything else that refers to MAILDIR.
>
> Look at the bottom of your ~./.procmailrc file and you will see:
>
> # Messages that fall through all your procmail recipes are delivered
> # to your default INBOX. To find out yours, run 'procmail -v'
>
> On my system :procmail -v yields, in part, this:
>
> Your system mailbox:	/var/mail/holtzm
>
> I think that is hardcoded into the program.
>
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