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From: Jarry <jarry@...>
Subject: Re: mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ???
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:39:24 +0200
Neil Bothwick wrote:

> 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

Hm, that sounds interesting. I really want to have mails on a separate
partition. Thanks for the tip, I will have a look at it...

Jarry
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