Curiosity re: /var/spool/mail by beginner??

[Janina Sajka]

William Case writes:
> Hi;
> 
> This is just a curiosity question?  I have been using Linux (FC) for
> over two years now, and I have never found a use for /var/spool/mail.
> Whenever I login as root I get messages telling me that I have mail. I
> just clean it out every 5 or 6 months.  I read through it first using
> the mail utility but there never seems to be any information that is
> useful to me.
> 
> I understand that on the original Unix systems 'mail' was how the system
> and the kernel would communicate with the user and root, but does it
> have any use now?
> 
> Do people on the list use it anymore?  If so, for what?  How?  Or, am I
> missing something basic?
> 
I use it all the time--but I guess not everyone does.


In my case I have my own mail server and that's where incoming mail
lands--for me and my several users.

Janina


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