[Linux-disciples] /var/mail/$USER

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I want mail to be delivered to ${USER}/Mail/inbox rather
> than /var/mail/${USER} for various reasons. Is there any
> better approach to doing so than just creating a symlink
> from the latter to the former?

Definitely. You don't want to make a symlink. There's something bad about
that, but I can't tell you what.

I also can't tell you what the better way is off the top of my head, but I
can tell you that there is a better way that should be readily googlable. I
suppose one way is with .procmailrc, and just tell it to deliver everything
that isn't caught by another filter to inbox. But I believe all MDA's have
some way of recognizing when mail is supposed to be delivered to a user's
home directory rather than the mail spool. It happens sometimes on
bostoncoop by accident.

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