Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news From: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Network-wide Mail Spool? Message-ID: <1990Nov5.213421.6864@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 5 Nov 90 21:34:21 GMT References: <924@iiasa.UUCP> <715@toshiba.tic.oz> Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA) Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu Frank Bresz writes: > I think delivering mail anywhere but the spool directory is a big >GIANT lose for a great many reasons too numerous to list. I absolute >abhore any suggestion to do so. List them, please. We have mail delivered to home directories (via a special delivery program I wrote that people run from .forward files) and have found it to be the easiest way to solve the problem in a heterogeneous environment. Chet -- Chet Ramey Network Services Group ``I die, Horatio'' Case Western Reserve University chet@ins.CWRU.Edu