> the point was that his NFS argument against /var/spool/mail was > irrelevant because home directories are often NFS mounted too
There is no ``NFS argument against /var/spool/mail.'' The fundamental problem with /var/spool/mail is security. It's not easy to handle a world-writable directory safely. (Big ISPs have another problem with /var/spool/mail: on most systems, reading a large directory takes a long time.) As a separate issue, mbox format is unreliable when the system crashes. It doesn't matter whether mailboxes are stored in home directories or in a central directory. The relevance of NFS is that it makes mbox format even more unreliable; you can lose mail even if the systems never crash. ---Dan Put an end to fake mailing list subscriptions. http://pobox.com/~djb/ezmlm.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
