On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:19:11AM -0700, David Talkington wrote:
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> Jay Daniels wrote:
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> >How can I safely set it to use a file in the users home directory like 
> >$USER/mail/INBOX for all users?  Or is it safe to do so?
> 
> Personally, I do it with compile options.
> 
> >I know there may be an unforseen problem here with locking the mail spool 
> >file when fetchmail runs as daemon mode if you are viewing the file in 
> >mutt at the same time.  Any advice?
> 
> Shouldn't be a problem on local filesystems.  If your MDA is writing to
> NFS-mounted home dirs, all bets are off.  I will note, though, that
> we've had far fewer (in fact, only one documented) instances of mailbox
> corruption since our home directory server was changed from Solaris to
> Red Hat.


One problem. When I set default mail spool to ~/mail/Inbox mutt creates a mbox file 
inside ~/mail.


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