On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:55:04PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > What is the official mail spool directory ? > /var/spool/mail ? > /var/mail ? > > I'm running a PowerMac G4 with exim. Things were working fine till I > tried to install zmailer. I had a few errors so I switched back to exim > for the time being. I could no longer read my mail through an IMAP > client running on another machine nor through elm running on the same > machine as the server. > > elm was looking for mail in /var/spool/mail but the mail was actually in > /var/mail. I think there must have been a symbolic link from > /var/spool/mail to /var/mail. I recreated the link and everything seems > fine. > Is this the correct setup ? > If so, why was the link removed in the exim to zmailer to exim > changeover ?
i'm not using zmailer -- just exim, since slink/2.1 -- and my spool directory moved, too. when i did a fresh install of woody/2.2, i've got /var/mail/* and /var/spool/mail is a symlink to /var/mail so the older style stuff still works. why the change? i dunno. as long as the symbolic link is there you should be fat-dumb-and-happy still, like me. (not necessarily in that order.)
