Re: tlug: Mail directory

[Selva Nair <selva@example.com>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 shimpei@example.com wrote:

>  
>  FHS 2.0 wants you to view reality differently:
>  
>    http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-5.7.html

Hmm..

>  
>  Solaris uses /var/mail by default, IIRC. mutt knew enough to auto-configure
>  itself to look in /var/mail by default on that platform, too.
>  

SunOS also appears to use /var/mail as defined in <maillock.h>.  The Sun
machine I have my mail account on has $MAIL defined by default as
/usr/mail which is actually symbolic link to /var/mail. But DEC OSF1
uses the Berkeley <paths.h> with _PATH_MAILDIR defined as /var/mail in
some older versions and /var/spool/mail later. Has DEC gone back to
/var/mail in still recent versions? 

Selva

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