Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER
On 1/1/07, Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I 'adduser' a new account, a /var/mail/$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. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER
Michael P. Soulier wrote: When I 'adduser' a new account, a /var/mail/$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 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. It doesn't hurt anyone but is it possible to disable its creation? -- Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER
On 1/1/07, Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't hurt anyone but is it possible to disable its creation? Not sure if there's an easier way, but you could always patch it and rebuild it. Or, you could just put a wrapper around it that removes the file after creating it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]