On 8/15/06, Anton B. Rang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Delivering into $HOME raises some new failure modes if the home directory servers are NFS mounted, but otherwise often works OK. However, in some cases it's simply impossible--for instance, in a secure NFS environment where the home directory can't be mounted without a Kerberos ticket.
Oy, Kerberos. Never heard of any place that actually *uses* it, and it sure has caused lots of work over the years. So does this mean that in some sense the mail directory is less well protected than the home directory in that situation? Right, I forgot people might still deliver into something other than a Maildir (which is NFS-safe). I suspect that was an important issue for a lot of sites.
I think the main reason systems are set up to deliver into /var/mail, though, is simply because that's how they ship by default. Few customers seem motivated to change the defaults unless they're convinced of a very good reason for it.
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