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

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

I think the reason you don't want the symlink is /var/mail/* always has
different permissions than ~{USER}/Mail/*.

Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> 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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