Network-wide Mail Spool?

[karl_kleinpaste at cis.ohio-state.edu]

fpb at ittc.wec.com writes:
   Well lets see a fast scan if man pages and related things lists as items
   which (on SunOS) specifically reference /var/spool/mail/ :

Any reason why one couldn't place symlinks:

	cd /usr/spool/mail
	foreach i (*)
		mv $i ~{$i}/.newmail
		ln -s ~{$i}/.newmail $i
	end
	chmod 555 /usr/spool/mail	# to prevent removal of the links.

That's a serious question; I've been debating this for a while.  We'd
like users' mail not to occupy space in a public filesystem, but
rather take up space under the area where quotas are enforced.

--karl