> Well, I also use Postfix, but I have my delivery going to mbox files
> that are separate from the /var/spool/mail/~user files.

Maybe that is what I should consider doing ... but that requires a more
significant change that I am prepared to make today.

> In any case, I have to wonder if you couldn't get away with using the
> "os.path.expanduser" function. I'm not a Python guy, but perhaps
> something like this...
>
> USERID = os.path.expanduser("~")
> DELIVERY = "/var/spool/mail/$USERID"
>
> Or, if this would work...
>
> DELIVERY = "/var/spool/mail/". os.path.expanduser("~")

Good idea ... that might be the right path for me to pursue.

Note that '~' gets expanded to the home directory of the current user, not
just their user name:

 echo ~


> I'm not sure if either of those would work or not. You could certainly
> try it.
>
> Of course, I'll still fall back to my previous statements.
>
> 1. A user will be able to override your /etc/tmdarc variables if they
> have a matching variable in their own .tmda/config file.

That would be OK.

> 2. You don't want users to share the same crypt-key

Correct.


Thanks!
Michael

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