On 2013-12-21 Sat 09:16 AM |, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > You seem to be coming from the perspective that people do stupid > > > things, and our base system should handle those stupid things. > > > > > > > My perspective is maildir (backed IMAP) is commonly deployed, > > and such are as well being security checked. > > Yes, and perhaps that means they should use a different directory!
No thanks. I say /var/mail is the right place for maildirs. The mailbox format is too limiting these days, with all of its file locking problems. A cluster of SMTP servers can concurrently write to a set of NFS mounted /var/mail directories, while simultaneously, a cluster of IMAP servers can concurrently both read and write to the same NFS mounted /var/mail directories. I'll continue to locally patch security, as I'm not fool who makes an idol out of archaic UNIX traditions. Cheers, -- Craig Skinner | http://twitter.com/Craig_Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7
