Note: Due to technical difficulties, the Archives are currently not up to date.
GMANE provides an alternative service for most mailing lists. c.f. bug 424647
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:28:08 +0200, Jarry wrote:
> > It's called the "maildir" mail storage format. I find it very useful,
>
> Personally I do not see any advantage of it over /var/spool/mail.
> On the other side, separate partitions for /var (with mail) and /home
> (with user files) let me define different quotas for mail and files.
> Well, at least I thought it, until I found out that mail is actually
> in /home too...
You can have maildir and still keep your mail in /var/spool/mail. In this
case, each user has a directory in /var/spool/mail.
Are you using procmail for delivery? If so, you need
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/$LOGNAME/
at the top of /etc/procmailrc
--
Neil Bothwick
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;
Teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.
|
|
