/var/spool/mail and new users

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 20:51 -0700, David Kewley wrote:
> mike wrote on Tuesday 05 October 2004 01:27:
> > Does anyone know where it is defined that a new mbox file is created
> > in /var/spool/mail when a new user is created?
> >
> > I use dovecot/exim with maildir and it gets in the way
> 
> I suspect it's hardcoded into /usr/sbin/useradd -- running strings on that 
> file reveals the string "/var/mail/%s".  No mention of 'mail' in the useradd 
> manpage.
> 
> This is on FC2; you could grab the relevant source rpm to check whether it is 
> indeed hardcoded.
> 

look in /etc/login.defs

-sv