On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Florian La Roche wrote: > There are reasons why all distributions stayed with /var/spool/mail. > Even Debian who also thinks a lot about making things sane/clean has > stayed with /var/spool/mail.
Note that Debian has not yet moved from FSSTND to FHS for the most part, and relocating /var/spool/mail hasn't been done in part due to discussion on the technical issues involved.
