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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