Postfix mailbox location

[Wade Smart]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 19:31, Cybe R. Wizard
<cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:56:03 -0500
> Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> I dont know if you can have it outside of your home dir, but as a
>> possible fix, would it be possible to just link your old mail folder
>> to the location where fetchmail is looking for it right now?
>
> This would make your old mail readable, yes, but would postfix put new
> mail into the appropriate directory or would it put it into the default?
>
> Hmm, if it puts it into its default directory but reads from the
> symlinked directory would you seemingly lose your newer mail?
>
> Can you tell that I'm new to linking directories?
>
> If it /does/ put mail into its own default directory but you link to
> another one, would a reciprocal link /back/ to the desired directory
> result in a loop situation?
>
> Man, I wish I had a spare machine and a throwaway Eccount to experiment
> with...
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
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Yea, after all the reading I have done today - I dont think it can but
- it didnt stop me from
asking to be sure :D

Thanks

Wade
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