"John L . Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 10:21:19PM -0500, will trillich wrote: >> why the change? i dunno. as long as the symbolic link is there >> you should be fat-dumb-and-happy still, like me. (not necessarily >> in that order.) > >The filesysten hierarchy standard specifies that the user mailbox >should be in /var/mail.
But Debian policy currently states that user mailboxes should be in /var/spool/mail, hence the symlink. There is a current proposal to change this to /var/mail which seemed to be generally acceptable, but at the moment it's stalled somewhere in the policy process. See <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/42052>. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
