FC7 adding unneccesary mailboxes in /var/mail
Jeroen van Meeuwen
kanarip at kanarip.com
Mon Jun 25 10:43:22 UTC 2007
Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>>> Has anyone else noticed that FC7's /var/mail is full of zero-byte
>>>> mailboxes for all users? It includes ones for services (squid,
>>>> webalizer, sshd, etc.), not just human users.
>
> Chris:
>>> Not until you mentioned it. How odd.
>
> Jeroen van Meeuwen:
>> It isn't really that odd at all, since all users can receive mail.
>> Sometimes though, they never do (some system accounts are in
>> /etc/aliases and forward to root, some systems never receive mail from
>> the outside world and are not being used to send mail locally).
>
> Well, odd in that this is the first distro that I've seen do that. I'd
> have thought that the aliases file might have been looked at before
> making mailbox files.
Jack may need a mailbox to be able to run
<insert-your-favorite-terminal-mail-client> while in fact all incoming
mail may be aliased to Joe.
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
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