I've moved the file /var/spool/mail/user to ~user/Mailbox and made a symbolic link back to /var/spool/mail/user, but it doesn't seem to stay. It will say that I have new mail in /var/spool/mail/user, and then when i go to view that mail via 'mail', it gives me this message:
 
This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
a real message.  It is created automatically by the mail system software.
If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
with the data reset to initial values.
 
I then quit out of mail, it saves it to mbox, and then the link /var/spool/mail/user is gone.
This line is in my maillog:
Jan 25 13:36:52 damacles procmail[5961]: Renamed bogus "/var/spool/mail/root" into "/var/spool/mail/BOGUS.root.VUJ"
 
Why is this happening, and why aren't my links sticking, and what should i do?
 
Thanks,
 
Eric

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