symlink of /home causes mail delivery failure

[James Kosin]

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Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
>>> Is there any reason that procmail (or anything else) would fail if
>>> /home is a symlink?
>>>
>>    I would not know. Depends on the type of link perhaps? My /home
>> is also in a different partition but I connect it to this main tree
>> with an
>
> I was hoping to avoid dedicating a whole partition to /home, so I'm
> trying the symlink approach instead. Except procmail doesn't seem to
> be doing the right thing...
>
> - Mike
>
>
There are two types of symbolic links.  I believe the directory may
need to be a hard symbolic link and not the other flavor.

- -James
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