Andrew Mitchell wrote:
>
> "Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" wrote:
> >
> > Oh, and mailboxes ARE created every time a user account is created, since the
> > mail subsystem uses the user information to authenticate, route and locate
> > e-mail messages. That has been the same since the 1970's with UNIX, and has
> > stayed the same.
> No, my point was (I should have said more clearly), that when adding an
> account, either through linuxconf, or by adduser, mailboxes *aren't*
> created for some reason on my machine. It's weird, but so is a lot of
I don't have Sendmail any longer to check, but I don't think
/var/spool/mail/$USER is created until the user actually gets their
first piece of mail.
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Steve Philp
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