On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:41:02AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > their web pages are themselves (/var/www, file:/var/www/foo.html). It's
> > not unreasonable for software to want to send mail, but that would mean
> > it'd need to use /usr/sbin/sendmail, not write to /var/mail/* directly.
> Think about mail _client_ applications. Elm, mutt etc do need to know where
> mail lives and do write back to it
MAIL=/home/aj/inbox
It's a good default to have, but it's something users and admins
may reasonably want to change; so not having it shouldn't break LSB
compliance. Consider a distribution which puts mail in $HOME/mail, temp
files in $HOME/.tmp; sets MAIL and TMPDIR appropriately, and tries to
avoid having any world-writable directories.
(This doesn't cause a problem as far as Debian's concerned, though)
Cheers,
aj
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