> I agree. I also don't think it's a big deal. What's important is that > all of the MUA's get compiled so that they look for the mail spool in > /var/mail. If /var/mail is a symlink to /var/spool/mail, or /u3/mail, > or something else --- that's fine.
Adding that symlink can be done easily by the admin of a machine. Why do you already want to do it on the distribution level? I'd either want the standard to move everything to /var/mail and abandom /var/spool/mail or to keep with /var/spool/mail. The move to /var/mail would take some time for the Linux community until it is finished. The end result would be that (just like now with /var/mail) some admins will add a link from /var/spool/mail to the new /var/mail to be compatible with old Linux systems or DEC machines. So the move to /var/mail will get us some confusion in the Linux community and at the end we will have the same situation as now: some admins will have to add a compatibility symlink. We achieved nothing... Please think about it and stay with /var/spool/mail. Florian La Roche
