Delivering into $HOME raises some new failure modes if the home directory servers are NFS mounted, but otherwise often works OK. However, in some cases it's simply impossible--for instance, in a secure NFS environment where the home directory can't be mounted without a Kerberos ticket.
I think the main reason systems are set up to deliver into /var/mail, though, is simply because that's how they ship by default. Few customers seem motivated to change the defaults unless they're convinced of a very good reason for it. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
