now that I have procmail working and have the option
to deliver mail to /var/mail (default for solaris)
or $HOME/.mail
which is better for a largish system, maybe distributed over
several hosts (frontend could be hosts with home directories
only, mounting bin and most else from NFS server with
read only file system).
Obviously delivering mail to $home/.mail will make it easy
to deal with disk hogs since their mail spool
and home directory will be together. But as to other
advantages/disadvantages?
One post noted that $home was mounted on the mail machine
with each delivery to check for a .forward file in any
case. So mounting $home/ to deliver to $home/.mail
should be a non-issue. But as to other issues?
Reference to archives/FAQ also appreciated, if relevant
to my question.
Also - how to move existing mail from /var/mail/$user to
$HOME/.mail - is there a tested script?