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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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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/

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