- On 2003.07.19, in Pine.LNX.4.56.0307191732110.172@cocaine.cryolabs.net,
- "Wouter Van Hemel" wouter@pair.com wrote:
It does that? I've never seen that kind of behavior. Perhaps your package is compiled with some weird options (if you didn't compile it yourself).
C-client (i.e., pine and uw-imap) will append /var/mail/$user to ~$user/mbox if ~/$user/mbox exists. AFAIK it's non-optional in the stock c-client build. If you touch ~/mbox, it should begin happening for you too.
(Options? Configuration? Ha!)
Pine and IMAP will regard ~/mbox as your INBOX, though, so it's not necessarily obvious that it's happening unless you look at the folders from outside pine or imap.
The purpose of this was twofold, as far as I can see: compatibility with Columbia MM's behavior with regard to mail.txt files, and to allow users or admins to balance space on the spool disk vs. space on the user disk. It's not a bad behavior, all things considered, though more configurability for this and other c-client behaviors would almost always be a fine thing.
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