Re: symlink of /home causes mail delivery failure

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Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
Is there any reason that procmail (or anything else) would fail if
/home is a symlink?

I would not know. Depends on the type of link perhaps? My /home
is also in a different partition but I connect it to this main tree
with an

I was hoping to avoid dedicating a whole partition to /home, so I'm
trying the symlink approach instead. Except procmail doesn't seem to
be doing the right thing...

- Mike


There are two types of symbolic links. I believe the directory may
need to be a hard symbolic link and not the other flavor.

- -James
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