On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:19:11AM -0700, David Talkington wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jay Daniels wrote: > > >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. -- Your login is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported! _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list