FC7 adding unneccesary mailboxes in /var/mail

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

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
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