On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 27, Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >mbox format mail is not safe over NFS even if there is locking. > Is not safe if there is a crash, but otherwise it works. > > >So perhaps we should mandate that all mail programs should be capable > >of using Maildir format, which is NFS safe without needing locks, and > >adopt that as our default. > I would support a policy amendment to move debian to ~/Maildir/.
Could we have it be ~/.Maildir/ or somesuch instead? Random directories that are really only accessed by tools and not by hand tend to bug me when they clutter up my home directory. -- Nathaniel
