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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> > Can .pmailrc be set so that incoming mails go to a 
> > hard drive directory, 
> 
> Not in .pmailrc.  In the mail script itself.  Just edit 
> /usr/bin/mail to point eznet at your HD instead of ~/mail/inbox
> 
> Alternatively, you could mount a HD or FD at ~/mail and it
> will automatically get everything sent to the ~/mail directory
> (inbox, outbox, whatever).
> 
> > Can you write a script so that if that directory does not 
> > exist, eznet.conf goes to floppy disk, along with incoming 
> > mails?  
> 
> It would be possible to put such a conditional in a script,
> but what happens when no floppy is in the drive?  Another
> conditional for the floppy?  Seems unnecessarily complicated 
> to me.

What happens if someone downloads more mail than will fit into RAM, and 
does not know enough about linux to modify eznet.conf?   I was thinking 
there might be a way to foolproof BL3, but probably someone will still 
manage to have problems with mail downloads.  Someone once sent me a 3M 
attachment (somehow a 1 page WORD file got larger than it should have 
been) and that could even fill up a small hard drive.  

> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
> 
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