On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Mark Baker wrote:
> /var/spool/mail is traditional in quite a few versions of unix, including
> all early linux systems, and so debian started off using it. The FHS (linux
> file hierarchy standard) specifies /var/mail, but debian haven't changed to
> that because of the difficulty of migrating existing systems.
Solaris uses /var/mail, which is why I'm used to that.
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