Raul Miller writes: >I think you should look at this issue a bit differently. In one >sense, both policies are broken -- delivering mail to a spool >directory requires sgid programs for the user to read mail (in the >usual sense). A more secure and more robust solution would be to >deliver mail directly into the user's home directory. For example, > echo $HOME/Mailbox >$HOME/.forward
This is a bad idea if the home directory is NFS-mounted from a remote system; IME file locking under NFS is very easy to get wrong. (Not that all mailers get locking right even on local file systems...) Additionally, a system might well have different backup or quota policies for mail and ordinary user data, which is a good reason to keep them separate. -- Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/