> On 1/1/07, Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I 'adduser' a new account, a /var/mail/$USER file is created. This is > > unnecessary as our MTA is configured to deliver mail directly to a user's > > ~/Maildir/, where the IMAP server looks by default. > > > > There is nothing in the adduser or adduser.conf man pages that explains how > > to manipulate (or, in my case, simply stop) the creation of this file. > > I do the same. I don't really care about the file, as it's not hurting > anything.
I looked at the adduser sources and couldn't find anything that explicitly creates the /var/mail/$USER directory. Further debugging shows that the "pw useradd" command (see the adduser subroutine) is what is creating the mail file. There doesn't seem to be a way from the command-line to have pw *not* create the mail spool file, although code will skip this is PWALTDIR() is set -- although our version of pw doesn't set this at all. There also appears to be a shortage of command line options that could be used to enable this behaviour. Regards, -- Matt Emmerton _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
