skin...@britvault.co.uk (Craig R. Skinner) writes: > On 2013-12-21 Sat 09:16 AM |, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> > > You seem to be coming from the perspective that people do stupid >> > > things, and our base system should handle those stupid things. >> > > >> > >> > My perspective is maildir (backed IMAP) is commonly deployed, >> > and such are as well being security checked. >> >> Yes, and perhaps that means they should use a different directory! > > No thanks. > > I say /var/mail is the right place for maildirs.
It's not. Do what you want on your systems. > The mailbox format is too limiting these days, with all of its file > locking problems. > > A cluster of SMTP servers can concurrently write to a set of NFS mounted > /var/mail directories, while simultaneously, a cluster of IMAP servers > can concurrently both read and write to the same NFS mounted /var/mail > directories. > > I'll continue to locally patch security, as I'm not fool who makes an > idol out of archaic UNIX traditions. Fine! > Cheers, -- jca | PGP: 0x06A11494 / 61DB D9A0 00A4 67CF 2A90 8961 6191 8FBF 06A1 1494
