On Wed, 29 May 2002, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> Greetings again. I need to move /var/mail to /usr/mail because my /
> partition fills up too quickly. At the moment, I can't open a very
> large mailbox in POP because there isn't enough space on / to handle
> the temporary file. I have a way around that for now, but I want a
> long-term solution.

You may also want to use a different POP3 server or configure your POP3
server to not copy to a temporary file.

(Even if you change to /usr/mail for your mailboxes, you may still have
the same tmp problem.)

Another idea may be to configure your mail delivery agent and your POP3
server to use mailboxes located in the user's home directories.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/