FC7 adding unneccesary mailboxes in /var/mail

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Upon reflection, I think that only root should get one created by
>> default.  Any other one should get created on demand (when you add a user,
>> when you install some service that creates a user that needs a mailbox).


Eric:
> Isn't that more or less the way it works now?  All these extraneous 
> mailboxes are being created when the installer installs some service.  The 
> only difference is that these mailboxes appear to be created whether the 
> service actually "needs" a mailbox or not (and "not" includes the situation 
> where the aliases file forwards all of that user's mail to somebody else, 
> usually root).

Yes, and no.  No, it doesn't work how *I* said, it used to.  Yes, it's
currently working without caring about the *need* for a mailbox.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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