Re: IMAP default mailbox in user's home dir

[Dpk <dpk@egr.msu.edu>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rigacci wrote:

   I'm setting an IMAP server for math students. I wish the user
   mailbox to be in each home directory, so quota can prevent someone
   filling the /var/spool/mail.
   
   I yet configured smail and pine to search for the user inbox in
   ${HOME}/mail/inbox file. In the same mail directory Pine creates
   its folders.
   
   The IMAP server (imap 4.4-4) is OK to store folders in
   ${HOME}/mail/ but it insists on searching /var/spool/mail/${USER}
   for the inbox.
   
   I have two questions:
   
   1) Is it possible to change imap without recompiling it? I read a
   lot of warning for using a configuration file.
   
   2) Is there a Debian policy about mail in user's home directory?
   
I know this isn't one of your questions, but why not give each user
disk quota in the directory /var/spool/mail?  This would avoid
questions 1 & 2.

Dennis
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Dennis Kelly <dpk@egr.msu.edu>
Network Adminstrator
College of Engineering, MSU