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
