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Re: KDE default config



On Wednesday 29 January 2003 03:01, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
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> Am Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2003 02:22 schrieb Achim Bohnet:
> > o kmail  /var/mail/<user> mbox
> >
> >         with a 'fresh' kde user: Start kde and add /var/mail/<user>
> >         as alocal mbox file. T he locking is 'procmail lockfile' and
> >         not FCNTL as required by debian policy. (btw. procmail
> >         lockfile fails and kmail statusbar reads: 'transmission failed:
> > could not lock /var/mail/<user>'
> 
> Wrong assumption: /var/mail/<user> is not always present: it depends on the 
> MTA and its configuration. E.g. ssmtp (no such file) or Exim configured for 
> Maildir (probably then /home/<user/Maildir instead).
> No preconfiguration is better than an abviously not always correct one.

Sorry.  Misleading writing.  I just want to suggest that the default locking
for local mbox is FCNTL and not procmail lockfile.  And policy supports
that.

About my assumption:  Well, exim is the debian 'default' and eximconfig
does not allow to switch from mbox to maildir.  So kmails default /var/spool/mail
if(!) a local mbox is added is a good one.

About the assumption: People hacking exim.conf or the one
explicitely chosing to use another MTA with a different local storage
mechanism are also able to choose a looking method ;)

Achim
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