From 7c6e845bc7443d3222c9e363b9cc5436bb5b36ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 00:03:39 +0200
Subject: Support absolute paths for MAILBOX_PATH

And in case somebody decides to put a format specifier in MAILBOX_PATH,
pass it as argument.

Suggestion made by an anonymous user by email.
---
 README.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'README.md')

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 69b6366..380d807 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ be changed to `~/.Maildir/inbox` as follows:
 
     make USERNAME=peter MAILBOX_PATH=.Maildir/inbox
 
+Absolute paths are also supported. The following configuration will put mail in
+`/var/mail/new/(filename)`:
+
+    make USERNAME=nobody MAILBOX_PATH=/var/mail
+
 To install femtomail on your system with the appropriate capabilities:
 
     make install install-link-sendmail setcap
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