For us the situation is even a bit stranger. The inboxes are located in
neither location, but in /maildirs/username/ (no idea why it was set up
that way, but it's a dedicated mail server where the user's don't have
their own home directory). /var/mail is empty.

Am Di., 14. Mai 2024 um 13:45 Uhr schrieb Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org>:

> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 07:36:17PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote:
> > Postfix is chrooted (usuallly) to /var/spool/postfix
>
> If this is true, then how would a local delivery agent work?  It needs
> write access to all users' inboxes, which are either in /var/mail or in
> users' home directories.
>
> I could imagine the Postfix SMTP sending/receiving and queue processing
> programs being chrooted, but the LDA probably isn't.  Or at least not
> chrooted to /var/spool/postfix.
>
>

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