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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