On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:13:28AM -0600, Rob Wright wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am curious about the storage of user .pref and .abook files. Currently 
> mine are all in /var/www/hmtl/webmail/data. 

Best to move that out of the /var/www tree to somewhere that isn't
served up by your webserver.

> I would like for them to be 
> stored in the home directory of my users

Why?  The users can modify the contents of these files through
SquirrelMail, they don't need direct access at all.

> is there any way squirrelmail to 
> do this? 

Patch the preferences code.

> What is the reasoning behind storing them all in one directory?

It makes administration and security easier.

-- 
Bruce


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