/var/spool/mail

[George Daflidis-Kotsis]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:58:07PM +0200, William Wallace wrote:

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> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Stavros Giannouris wrote:
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> >Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:48:00 +0200
> >From: Stavros Giannouris <alby at freemail.gr>
> >To: Apostolis Hardalias <hardas at students.cs.unipi.gr>,
> >    Linux Greek Users <linux-greek-users at lists.hellug.gr>
> >Subject: Re: /var/spool/mail
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> >Στις 20-03-2005, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 14:58 +0200, ο/η Apostolis Hardalias
> >έγραψε:
> >>Na dior8wsw ton eauto mou, telika isxuei to anapodo. To /var/spool/mail
> >>einai symbolic link sto /var/mail :)
> >>
> >Oxi aparaitita. Eksartatai apo to stisimo panta:
> >
> >[15:43]stavrosg at lorien openttd$ ls -l /var/mail
> >lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 10 2005-03-03 16:57 /var/mail -> spool/mail
> >[15:46]stavrosg at lorien openttd$
> 
> sto mixanima pou anaferomai einai dio diaforetika directories pou den 
> exoun kamia sxesi metaksi tous (ektos fisika apo to oti kai sta 2 iparxei 
> ena arxeio me onoma to username tou xristi kai ta mail tou). H arxiki mou 
> erwtisi itan to _GIATI_ kapoia mail (pou o xristis pernei me fetchmail 
> apo remote mailserver) pane sto /var/spool/mail/${USER} kai kapoia sto 
> /var/mail/${USER}

Giati kati sto susthma sou einai ru8mismeno na kanei default deliveries sto
/var/spool/mail${USER} , kati allo einai ru8mismeno na ta kanei sto
/var/mail/${USER} , p.x. to sendmail kai to fetchmail antistoixa?

Sigoura isxuei auto pou eipes sto telos? Mhpws p.x. kapote etrexes sendmail
pou by default ta stelnei sto /var/spool/mail kai meta ekanes upgrade se
exim pou by default ta stelnei sto /var/mail opote uparxoun mails sto
/var/spool/mail alla exoun timestamp prin apo ena xrono?

Filika.

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[george daflidis-kotsis - systems administrator - mnw/msts - gdk at thus.net]