More on mail

[Kirk Wood]

> The unix and linux convention is that mail goes in
> /var/spool/mail/<username> (e.g. /var/spool/mail/gena).  It would probably
> be possible to change this, but I'm sure you'd have to change several
> program configs to do this and, unless you really want your inbox in
> /home/gena and are prepared to track it all down, I'd just leave it as it
> is.  

One thing you might want to do (from the qmail install instructions) if ou
decide to move the mail into your home directory is set the permisions the
same as your "normal" mail spool file, and create a softlink to the new
location. This will prevent you from having to change all your configs.

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Kirk Wood
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