Raul Miller writes ("Re: Draft manuals"):
> Some thought about qmail should occur [in the section on
> mail processing].
>
> qmail doesn't use a mail spool directory for security reasons, mail
> boxes are in the user's home directory by default. And, of course,
> there's the maildir format for people wanting a very robust system.
>
> I've seen mention on debian-devel of making movemail aware of
> maildir. I suspect that this is the right thing to do.
qmail's author has taken a deliberate choice to be incompatible with
things, and this means that we can either:
* mandate that everything support what qmail does
* live with not everything working when you use qmail.
What precisely do you think I should put in the policy manual on this
subject ? I'm loath to mandate that every program support qmail's
maildir format.
Perhaps the qmail package should come with a local delivery agent that
can do delivery into /var/spool/mail ? It only has to be setgid mail,
not setuid root. That requirement would be the effect of the policy
requirements as they're written atm.
Ian.
