On 3/7/06, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Again, how many of those try $MAIL first? That should always be set, so
> falling back to /var/mail, /var/spool/mail, or /dev/null should not be
> flagged as a bug.
balsa is even smarter than that... first it checkes $MAIL and then it
iterates across a set of guesses starting with /var/mail.
I think I've learned a value lesson today. And that lesson is the
original poster is on crack.
Out of everything in his original /var/spool/mail hitlist which "may"
be a problem the only thing I can see so far is dhcp, which seems to
have a list of directories to try which doesn't include /var/mail on
linux. Needs to be addressed with upstream if possible.
<quote from linux.h in dhcp src code>
const char *dirs[] = {
"/tmp",
"/usr/tmp",
".",
"/",
"/var/spool",
"/dev",
"/var/spool/mail",
"/home",
"/usr/home",
NULL
};
</quote>
<quote from libbalsa.c from balsa src code>
libbalsa_guess_mail_spool(void)
{
int i;
gchar *env;
gchar *spool;
static const gchar *guesses[] = {
"/var/mail/",
"/var/spool/mail/",
"/usr/spool/mail/",
"/usr/mail/",
NULL
};
if ((env = getenv("MAIL")) != NULL)
return g_strdup(env);
if ((env = getenv("USER")) != NULL) {
for (i = 0; guesses[i] != NULL; i++) {
spool = g_strconcat(guesses[i], env, NULL);
if (g_file_test(spool, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS))
return spool;
g_free(spool);
}
}
/* libmutt's configure.in indicates that this
* ($HOME/mailbox) exists on
* some systems, and it's a good enough default if we
* can't guess it any other way. */
return g_strconcat(g_get_home_dir(), "/mailbox", NULL);
}
</quote>
-jef
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