[Workaround.org] mail root directory

Christoph Haas email at christoph-haas.de
Fri May 18 14:12:08 CEST 2007


On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:58:35AM +0200, Martin Lohmeier wrote:
> at the moment the tutorial mention /home/vmail as root directory for  
> all mailboxes.
> 
> What about moving them to some place under /srv ? I think this  
> directory is intended for server related files. /srv/imap and /srv/pop  
> or just /srv/mail...

I believe the right location would be in /var. Most people probably
won't have an /srv partition created from the start. But running a mail
server will need some careful planning anyway. And that starts during
the partitioning phase.

Just my 2¢.

Kindly
 Christoph




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