From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 8 19:50: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu (pp-osprey.walkup.uiuc.edu [128.174.199.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B46C437B5CA for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:49:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ftobin@uiuc.edu) Received: (qmail 35476 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Aug 2000 02:49:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Aug 2000 02:49:57 -0000 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:49:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Tobin X-Sender: ftobin@srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine 4.21 port issues? In-Reply-To: <200008082311.RAA44058@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----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