Can i move Sendmail store folder to Home partition?

[Matt Kettler]

making /var/spool/mail a link is a doable option, but probably sub-optimal.
Offhand it makes me a bit nervous as far as inheriting mount permissions of
the /home partition, and being re-linkable, but I'm a bit of a paranoid
type and haven't had the chance to think about it deeply.

If possible I'd make /var/spool/ its own filesystem (and partition) and
quota that. If your fstab supports it, it would also be a good chance to
mount it noexec, nosuid,nodev. (minor security bonus since nothings likely
to exec there anyway, but it's not like anything ever needs to be
executable or a special device there so why allow it?)


At 12:19 PM 8/22/2002 +0800, Tan Lian Leong wrote:
>
>Thanks for reply. I plan to use imap for my mail server. So I would like
>to enable quota on user mailbox. Do you think i should link the
>/var/spool/mail to home and enable quota in /home file system or just
>enable quota in /var file system is the better method? Do you have any
>other good suggestion?
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:Matthew_doherty at DATAWATCH.COM>Matt Doherty
>To: <mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 9:02 PM
>Subject: Re: Can i move Sendmail store folder to Home partition?
>
>make a link ,
>mkdir /home/mail
>cd /var/spool
>ln -s /home/mail mail
>
>
>do a ' man ln '