Re: Changing standard mailbox setup of Debian?

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Henrique M Holschuh 

| On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > | So what's the problem with using MAIL=~/.mail? Every program
| > | that want's to open a mailbox is supposed to look at $MAIL
| > | anyway, if something blindly opens /var/mail/$USER I'd consider
| > | it broken.
| > 
| > Ok, then at least cucipop, ipop3d, imapd, and most of the other
| > POP/IMAP daemons are broken.  What I'd like them to do is obey $MAIL
| 
| File bug reports then, please.

It's in policy that the mail spool is /var/spool/mail, so the breakage
is at most a wishlist bug.  I might look into it anyhow. :)

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Tollef Fog Heen
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