On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:14:42AM -0600, David Dooling wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:57:49PM -0800, Chris Fischer wrote: > > Is it possible with SM to have the default folder location for Sent, > > Trash, etc. to not be in the user's home directory...meaning completely > > outside of their home directory? > > The solution we went with is to not mount home directories on > the mail server. Rather, we have a large /var/mail partition > (separate from /var to avoid the problem of ever-growing log files). > Under /var/mail we created a directory name HOME with a subfolder for > each user (~300). We then created symlinks from where their actual > home directory would be mounted to the location under /var/mail/HOME.
I have attached a script that goes through all the password entries and creates the needed files for the above setup. Run perldoc on it for more information. It also understands the --help option. dd -- David Dooling
mail_home.pl
Description: Perl program
