Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > their web pages are themselves (/var/www, file:/var/www/foo.html). It's > > not unreasonable for software to want to send mail, but that would mean > > it'd need to use /usr/sbin/sendmail, not write to /var/mail/* directly. > > Think about mail _client_ applications. Elm, mutt etc do need to know where > mail lives and do write back to it
Mutt kindly asks you about where you keep your mail, IIRC - or does it use $MAIL? Either way, it doesn't matter - the point is that you do not need to assume the location of the spool-directory. In fact, I'd regard a mail-client that can only deal with a default value to be, uhm, suboptimal. -Jan -- Jan Schaumann http://www.netmeister.org
