On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > To do this I suggest we ammend policy first by replacing all existing > instances of /var/spool/mail with /var/mail and then changing the second > paragraph of section 5.6 which currently reads
I object to this proposed change on the following grounds: There are no reasons for us to change. The FHS made a gratuitous change in this area. If someone wants to install software that really does require /var/mail to exist they can make the symlink themselves. There are reasons for us not to change: it is hard to do right, as the discussion has shown, and if we get it wrong we risk making people's mail systems fall over or even losing mail. Ian.
