Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:49:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine 4.21 port issues? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008082131560.35095-100000@srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200008082311.RAA44058@harmony.village.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Warner Losh, at 17:11 -0600 on Tue, 8 Aug 2000, wrote: > : Your safest course of action is actually to probably not even use > : /var/mail, but rather have mailboxes directly in each user's home > : directory. Qmail supports this. (/var/qmail/doc/INSTALL.mbox) > > I'm not sure how this is better for well behaved mail programs. There is a warm snuggly feeling when users have their data in their own directories. It simplifies quota issues, remotely-mounted home directories, additions of new users to the system without modifying /var/mail, etc. - -- Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.9.0 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAjmQxtEACgkQVv/RCiYMT6Nu5wCeOi9Wv8wEr3bLPwga+ctoGciV 9/4AoKqiM9/+hPT3l6QJ4h3+UYvYVQQg =pyX/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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