How to stop automatic creation of /var/mail/$USER

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 1/1/07, Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net> wrote:
> When I 'adduser' a new account, a /var/mail/$USER file is created.  This is
> unnecessary as our MTA is configured to deliver mail directly to a user's
> ~/Maildir/, where the IMAP server looks by default.
>
> There is nothing in the adduser or adduser.conf man pages that explains how
> to manipulate (or, in my case, simply stop) the creation of this file.

I do the same. I don't really care about the file, as it's not hurting
anything.

Mike
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