[K12OSN] Users' Maildir directories

[Michael Blinn]

Thanks Rob - I'm already sure postfix and dovecot _can_ it, and procmail 
certainly can filter my spam into a Junk folder no matter the location. 
I'm just wondering if there are downsides before I make the switch, or 
alternatives. I suppose putting email in /var would work also.
Cheers,
 -Michael

Rob Owens wrote:
> I briefly looked into this on a Debian system I was playing around 
> with.  It uses exim4 instead of postfix.  I couldn't find a setting in 
> exim4 to allow a different location for the Maildir folder, but I'm a 
> novice in that area so I might have missed it.  So first make sure 
> that Postfix will let you specify an alternate location, and then 
> consider whether the user's mail should go in their home directory at 
> all.  Maybe it should be put in /var/mail or some other location where 
> it's less likely to be deleted--that was my goal.
>
> -Rob