on 27/2/2000 11:40 PM, Raju K V shot down the bitstream:
> When does the /var/spool/mail/username entry get created? useradd does
> not do it. I have noticed that most of the 'fetchmail not writing to
> local spool' problem is because there is no mail spool entry.
That's where sendmail puts received mail. sendmail will create it if need
be. So, the first time a user gets mail, that file is created. I bet you
could also just 'touch /var/spool/mail/johndoe' to create it. (Don't forget
to set appropriate permissions).
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