>Hi Mik, > >not quoting anything because your posting is too ill-formatted. > >Yours is a frequently answered question. The directory /var/mail/ >is intended for individual user mailboxes. If you need a directory >for a different purpose - like mailbox subhierarchies for virtual >domains - create a different directory. > >If you want to do daily checks on that different directory checking >for a different format, implement your own checks in daily.local(8).
That is the correct answer. The files in /var/mail already have some pretty tricky locking requirements, so there is no way we're going to encourage placement of other objects in there.
