Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ittc!fpb From: fpb@ittc.wec.com (Frank P. Bresz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Network-wide Mail Spool? Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 05:44:27 GMT References: <924@iiasa.UUCP> <715@toshiba.tic.oz> <1990Nov5.213421.6864@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Sender: news@ittc.wec.com Organization: Westinghouse, ITTC, Pgh, PA. Lines: 35 In-reply-to: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu's message of 5 Nov 90 21:34:21 GMT Distribution: In article <1990Nov5.213421.6864@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu writes: >Path: ittc!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news >References: <924@iiasa.UUCP> <715@toshiba.tic.oz> >Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu >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. Well lets see a fast scan if man pages and related things lists as items which (on SunOS) specifically reference /var/spool/mail/ : biff (1) - give notice of incoming mail messages bin-mail, binmail (1) - an early program for processing mail messages from (1) - display the sender and date of newly-arrived mail messages old-prmail (1) - display waiting mail finger (1) - display information about users csh - (default setups anyway) login - (default setups anyway) movemail - (part of GNU-Emacs) -- | () () () | Frank P. Bresz | Westinghouse Electric Corporation | \ /\ / | fpb@ittc.wec.com | ITTC Simulators Department | \/ \/ | uunet!ittc!fpb | Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate. | ---------- | +1 412 733 6749 | My opinions are mine, WEC don't want 'em.