Re: Debian mutt-ng_0.0+20050831-1_i390.deb

Hi,

* Elimar Riesebieter [05-09-11 17:38:28 +0200] wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 the mental interface of
> Peter J. Holzer told:
> > On 2005-09-08 22:38:20 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> > > Why are your reading your mail in /var/spool/mail?

> > Because that's where the mailbox is on his system?

*LOL*

> Right, but it is just a spooldir with unreliable user rights.

In such cases it's the admins fault. Mailspools outside of $HOME have to 
be created with 0775 and root:mail and even better with the sticky bit 
set. I even saw 1777 for the dir and 0660 ($user:mail) for the spools...

> It is
> recommended to sort local mail in $HOME/"whatever you want". Tools
> like procmail or getmail or maildrop or ... are very useful to do
> that.

But then you need enough storage for mail in $HOME. I've seen 
installations where $HOME and /var/mail came from different machines 
with huge disks. I even saw installations were there were quotas on 
$HOME but not on $MAIL so people were wrapping lots of data in MIME 
mails in $MAIL instead of $HOME (hint: with muttng one can define where 
to store postponed mails). The others, not me, of course ;-))

  bye, Rocco
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