On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:37:53PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Most Mail User Agents for standard Unix systems look in /var/mail/<user> > > for the user's mailbox. So if qmail is switching to ~/Mailbox, then > > they have to solve the problem for all of the various MUA's out there, > > and that is really qmail's and mutt's problem. I assume someone in that > > community must have thought about the problem, since people generally > > don't react well when they're told that they can't use their favorite > > mail reader because some new mail system has decided to use a different > > mailbox convention. > > > > So maybe any standard should not say something about the mail spool dir? > > Actually, it might be worthwhile to specify that if environment > variable MAILBOX exists, then MUAs need to honour it?
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