Temporary dir for mailpost

[Russ Allbery]

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> Then for INN 2.6.0, we could:
> - warn in the Upgrade Section that people using mailpost without an
> explicitly configured database directory with the -b parameter should
> manually move the database from $pathtmp to $pathdb (I do not see how to
> do it automatically as we do not know how mailpost is launched; one may
> even use "-b pathtmp" explicitly);

> - change the default value for the -b option from pathtmp to pathdb;

> - add a new configurable -t option to configure the location of the
> directory to use to temporarily store error messages that are sent to the
> newsmaster.  Two paths are tried by default:  pathtmp as set in inn.conf,
> and then /var/tmp if pathtmp is not writable;

> - die with an explicit error message if either the directory for the
> database or the one for the temporary files refer to a path that does not
> exist or the mailpost process does not have write access to.

> And for INN 2.5.5, for backwards compatibility, just add the new -t 
> option and the checks for writable directories.

> Would that sound good?

Belatedly, yup, that sounds good to me!

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