On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 02:37, Faisal wrote:
Is it a good idea to have the mbox file in user home directories rather then /var/mail/ ?
Administratively speaking, I think this is a big win, because then their homedir's quotas pertain to their mail as well, and you don't need (you can avoid it, but many sites don't) a mode 1777 /var/mail - which can be a bit of a free-for-all.
We have many users who like to leave all their mail in /var/mail for ages. It's a problem, because some software understandably hates large mbox files. If they have the same quota for their maildrop and their homedir, that opens the door to pure Maildir, as well as incentivising refiling mail messages into appropriate folders (since leaving things in one big folder is no longer a quota advantage).
On the other hand, technically speaking, if /var/mail is local, and ~user is NFS mounted or something, you may encounter NFS-related problems.
-- Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu