Re: FC7 adding unneccesary mailboxes in /var/mail

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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".


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