On 21/12/13 3:14 PM, Craig R. Skinner wrote:
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.
Then do so on your own systems.
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.
None of this is relevant to the discussion.
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