ITEM: F5263L

I want two users to share the same mail

Question:

        I have two users with two seperate home directories, UIDs,
etc.  However, I want these two users to share the same mail.  Can
this be done?

Response:

Yes.  A users incoming mail goes to /var/spool/mail/{USERID}.  I
tested creating a soft link between the two users.  For example,
suppose that the two users are "mail1" and "mail2".  The following
would work:

cd /var/spool/mail

ln -s mail1 mail2               (or mail2 mail1... either way)

Now the two files "mail1" and "mail2" in /var/spool/mail are actually
the same file... Mail for either user ends up here and they can share
the mail.




Support Line: I want two users to share the same mail ITEM: F5263L

Dated: January 1994 Category: N/A

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