Having not seen the whole thing let me ask: why is /var/spool/mail NOT okay? This is a good spot for it sense-wise and it is very common to have spool off on another partition to minimize loss, etc. When I first saw this in Debian I thought "wow someone did the right thing". And to answer Manoj, BSDi uses /var/mail. We (a mid-sized ISP) have to link it into the /var/spool partition or /var/spool into the /var/mail .partition.
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