Ingo Schwarze wrote: > the smtpd(8) daemon supports "deliver to maildir" out of the box, > and even though putting the user maildirs below /var/mail/ is not > the default, it's one of many possible and logical choices, and i > see nothing wrong with it.
I think the possibility to fill up /var makes it a poor choice. Putting each user's mail in their home directory is, imo, a more sensible choice. Now, there are a dozen legacy reasons why we may not be able to do this by default, but we should encourage anybody changing the defaults to avoid /var/mail. Even traditional mail only uses /var as a queue, and then stores messages in ~/mbox. In short, we can't simply drop /var/mail support, but if through inaction we can discourage its use, then I vote for inaction.
