> but I haven't heard any technical reasons besides, "Moving spool > directories is hard". When I and others have pointed out that moving > the spool directory isn't required; just a symlink, I have heard dead > silence. So the lack of technical discussion, but just a stony-silence > "No!" is rather disappointing as far as I'm concerned.
One simple one - I want my mail on the spool disk. Its in the grows randomly, mostly crap, doesnt cause hassle if it fills for a while category I have no problem with a "both paths must one work one or more may be a symlink". At that point however the FHS should mandate one which may be a symlink only. Right now everyone uses /var/spool/mail whats the technical reason for using /var/mail that is good enough to justify the change ?