MBOXPATH(1zm)                                                    MBOXPATH(1zm)



NAME
       mboxpath - ZMailer utility to show user's mailbox path

SYNOPSIS
       mboxpath [-D[D..]]  [-P[P..]]  [-X[X..]]  [-d dirpath] username

DESCRIPTION
       The mboxpath(1) is a ZMailer utility program to be used when local user
       directories have been scattered around,  and  it  is  desired  to  have
       user's  shell  environment  variable  MAIL be set to where ever his/her
       UNIX mailbox file is.

       This does only manage scattering under common -d dirpath directory pre-
       fix, but usually that is sufficient.

OPTIONS
       -d dirpath
              See mailbox(8zm).

       -D[D..]
              See mailbox(8zm).

       -P[P..]
              See mailbox(8zm).

       -X[X..]
              See mailbox(8zm).

USAGE
       This  is  intended for system-wide startup script usage with code some-
       thing like following for sh:

              MAIL=`mboxpath  -P  $USER`

       It is important to use SAME options here as are  used  at  running  the
       mailbox program.


ENVIRONMENT
       The default location for user mailbox files depends per system, but one
       of them is: /var/mail.  This may be modified by  setting  the  variable
       MAILBOX  in  /opt/mail/zmailer.conf  to  the  directory containing user
       mailbox files, for example /var/spool/mail.  This is best done  in  the
       ZMailer SiteConfig file.

       This program outputs the likely mailbox location to the stdout, it does
       not go and see if there is anything.

FILES
       /opt/mail/zmailer.conf   (ZCONFIG)
       /var/spool/mail          (MAILBOX)

       While this utility does read ZENV-variable ZCONFIG, the read  'MAILBOX'
       variable can be overridden with the '-d' option.


SEE ALSO
       mailbox(8zm),  scheduler(8zm),  comsat(8),  biff(1), flock(2), Mail(1),
       zmailer.conf(5zm).

AUTHOR
       This program authored and copyright by:
          Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>



                                  2005-Feb-18                    MBOXPATH(1zm)