Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 16:12:35 -0500 From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> To: "sahil@tandon.net" <sahil@tandon.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER Message-ID: <fb6605670701011312w344779cewa857b5afeb1fbd4d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070101203920.GA955@tandon.net> References: <20070101203920.GA955@tandon.net>
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On 1/1/07, Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> wrote: > When I 'adduser' a new account, a /var/mail/$USER file is created. This is > unnecessary as our MTA is configured to deliver mail directly to a user's > ~/Maildir/, where the IMAP server looks by default. > > There is nothing in the adduser or adduser.conf man pages that explains how > to manipulate (or, in my case, simply stop) the creation of this file. I do the same. I don't really care about the file, as it's not hurting anything. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein
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