On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, John Kelly wrote:
>Note that once you have an INBOX file in a user's home directory, any
>mail that gets delivered to /var/spool/mail/username is effectively
>invisible, so you want to make sure nothing ever gets delivered to
>/var/spool/mail/username
Not a problem.  uw-imap "snarfs" any spool mail over to INBOX on the
next client connect, disk quotas permitting.

Exactly. This is also why you don't want to maul sysinbox(). As long as sysinbox() points at the traditional UNIX mail spool, the snarfing will take care of any messages which get misdirected to the spool.

It never hurts to wear both a belt and suspenders...that way your trousers never fall down! ;-)

-- Mark --

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