Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER

2007-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
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

Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER

2007-01-01 Thread Sahil Tandon
Michael P. Soulier 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

Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER

2007-01-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 1/1/07, Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't hurt anyone but is it possible to disable its creation? Not sure if there's an easier way, but you could always patch it and rebuild it. Or, you could just put a wrapper around it that removes the file after creating it. Mike --

Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER

2007-01-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
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