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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /usr/spool/mail versus maildir: use item needed
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Sounds like the mail box type should be a use line, since it's designed 
for compilation. But the location should be a rc.conf variable.

What do you think Grant/Arcady/others?

use items:
mbox and maildir

rc.conf variables:
MBOX_PATH
MAILDIR_PATH

-Jared H.

Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Grant Goodyear <goodyea@clemson.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>>I need a use item that will tell programs whether to build support for 
>>>/var/spool/mail or ~/.maildir
>>
> [snip]
> 
>>I suggest "mbox" or "maildir", since that's what almost everybody
>>calls the two major types of mailboxes.  
> 
> 
> Let's not forget that the mbox can also live in the user's home
> directory (i.e. ~/Mailbox).  It would be nice if this was also
> supported.