> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > If we must back out /var/mail (for no good technical reason that I can > > determine), then at the very least I think we should state that there > > that for all compliant distributions, /var/mail *MUST* be a valid way of > > reaching the spool directory (i.e., there should be a symlink there, or > > where the spool directory actually lives) > > If you include this change, will using ~/Mailbox violate the FHS? Does > it already? Should it? Should we require symlinks from > /var/mail/$USER to ~$USER/Mailbox? > > Switching a single one-user system to ~/Mailbox is easy, btw. > Switching a single multi-user system to ~/Mailbox is likely to cause a > certain amount of pain. Distributing applications to millions of > people, some of whom use one convention, and some of whom use another, > is surely asking for trouble. >
~/Mailbox systems are inherently local-setup anyway; they're going to need their own applications, unless they have the symlinks (I think there are special daemons to create link farms like that using a virtual NFS server.) -hpa