Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!pacbell.com!ames!dftsrv!hq!mitch From: mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Network-wide Mail Spool? Message-ID: Date: 28 Nov 90 00:03:30 GMT References: <924@iiasa.UUCP> <715@toshiba.tic.oz> <1990Nov5.213421.6864@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Sender: mitch@hq.afcsa.af.mil Organization: Air Force HQ, The Pentagon Lines: 39 In-reply-to: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu's message of 5 Nov 90 21:34:21 GMT /* * On 5 Nov 90 21:34:21 GMT, * Chet Ramey writes: * */ Frank Bresz writes: Frank> I think delivering mail anywhere but the spool directory is a big Frank> GIANT lose for a great many reasons too numerous to list. I absolute Frank> abhore any suggestion to do so. Chet> List them, please. We have mail delivered to home directories (via a Chet> special delivery program I wrote that people run from .forward files) Chet> and have found it to be the easiest way to solve the problem in a Chet> heterogeneous environment. Well, I have one. o If I finger Joeuser@Podunk.Edu, it will normally let me know what the oldest unread mail message is so I can determine if he's read my mail yet. This is very handy... to me at least ~mitch mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) | The Pentagon, 1B1046 | (703) 695-0262 ``A system without PERL is like a hockey game without a fight.'' -- Me -- ..mitch mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) | The Pentagon, 1B1046 | (703) 695-0262 ``A system without PERL is like a hockey game without a fight.'' -- Mitch Wright