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Re: Policy: Mail folder creation (Re: Debian mutt package)



On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Oscar Levi wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 12:49:44PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Oscar Levi wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > > > Thus, I'd suggest the mail spool file is created by the useradd or
> > > > similar programs upon account creation.  For robustness reasons,
> > > > M_D_As such as procmail and deliver should be required to re-create
> > > > it when it doesn't exist, and required MUA behaviour should be as I
> > > > wrote above.
> > [snip]
> > > 
> > > What about making the adduser script create spool files?
> > 
> > That is what was suggested?
> 
> That's a question?

More of a "Hey, That WAS suggested." The ? could be replaced with a . ,
but For some reason, when I wrote it, some other tense/meaning was
implied. Damned If I can remember it now.

> I am suggesting that.  It would circumvent the deceptive error message
> that mutt emits.  If we combine this with the stipulation that MUAs
> cannot delete spool files we will have a consistent setup.

Agreed.

                       Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)

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