/var/spool/mail and new users

[John Dennis]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 04:27, mike wrote:
> Does anyone know where it is defined that a new mbox file is created
> in /var/spool/mail when a new user is created?
> 
> I use dovecot/exim with maildir and it gets in the way

You should read the doc in /usr/share/doc/dovecot-*/mail-storages.txt
and see the comments in /etc/dovecot.conf, where you will probably need
to make an edit. Then restart the dovecot service.
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>