On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 03:58:20PM -0500, Pocket wrote: > Will this work? > > symlink /var/mail/paulf to /home/paulf/Mail/in > > ln -vs /home/paulf/Mail/in /var/mail/paulf
I wouldn't expect it to work. Most programs that try to deliver to an mbox file like /var/mail/username will try to "dot-lock" it (by creating another file next to it with a .lock extension, and using that as a sort of semaphor), and that isn't likely to work across file systems. There may also be security measures in place (AppArmor and so on) which restrain the reach of a mail delivery agent to specific directories. Symlinks tend to interact poorly with such things. You're much better off configuring a ~/.forward file if you're running an MTA which honors that.
