On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >So perhaps we should mandate that all mail programs should be capable
> >of using Maildir format, which is NFS safe without needing locks, and
> >adopt that as our default.
> I would support a policy amendment to move debian to ~/Maildir/.
Don't you even... (I use that sort of system here on this machine, but it
should NOT be the default!) Before you even consider that solution you
need to address people who don't have a ~ to put a mailbox in (ie a mail
only account..) You also have to consider people with a mail partition.
I would support the ability to make this the default for a system, but I
can't say that it should be done globally and universally. We're all
aware of the dangers of NFS. If there was a good way to fix the problem
we'd have fixed it ten years ago. =>
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