Author: Kai Henningsen Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Problems with writing to spool
ph10@??? (Philip Hazel) wrote on 08.08.00 in <Pine.SOL.4.21.0008080918000.6516-100000@???>:
> Ah. I think we are using different language here. What Exim calls the
> "spool" is /var/spool/exim, where it keeps messages it is delivering.
> You seem to be talking about the directory where mailboxes are stored,
> which is sometimes called "the spool" by other people. I do not use that
> terminology, because it is confusing - and this thread proves that!
Well, given that (on Debian at least) one is (by default) /var/spool/exim/
and the other is /var/spool/mail/, I think of the two as "Exim spool" and
"mail spool".
