FC7 adding unneccesary mailboxes in /var/mail

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 25 20:36:25 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 11:45 -0400, Eric wrote:
> At 10:39 AM 6/25/2007, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> 
> <JvM>>>>>What does Jack and Joe users being created at install time have to 
> do with whether Jack may need to be able to send mail using 
> his-favorite-program and thus needing a /var/spool/mail box but not 
> receiving any mail in it because all his incoming mail is being forwarded 
> to Joe?<<<<<
> 
> The OP (Original Poster) asked the question about all these unneeded 
> zero-length mailboxes being created at install time in /var/spool/mail for 
> "users" like backuppc and jabber and privoxy.
> 
> You said "What about Jack who needs a mailbox so he can send mail even 
> though all his mail is being aliased to Joe?" and the answer is that Jack 
> and Joe aren't created at install time, they are created later using 
> adduser which creates the needed mailboxes even if Jack's mail is being 
> forwarded to Joe.
> 
> Thus, the install process could inspect the default aliases file and not 
> create mailboxes for "users" who are aliased to something else, without any 
> effect on Jack or Joe whose accounts are created with adduser, not the 
> installer.
> 
> That's all I meant.  Didn't mean to try to be "funny".
> 
Can we agree this is a non-issue and go on to something else.
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