I notice that when I create a user in my Postfix server, I also create a file located in /var/spool/mail:
******************************************************************** [r...@mail mail]# ls -l total 0 -rw-rw---- 1 user1 mail 0 Jun 8 11:35 user1 -rw-rw---- 1 user2 mail 0 Jun 5 08:41 user2 -rw-rw---- 1 user3 mail 0 Jun 9 10:00 user3 -rw-rw---- 1 user4 mail 0 Jun 8 10:37 user4 -rw-rw---- 1 user5 mail 0 May 21 15:15 user5 -rw-rw---- 1 user6 mail 0 May 28 16:06 user6 -rw-rw---- 1 user7 mail 0 May 21 15:20 user7 -rw-rw---- 1 user8 mail 0 May 20 10:04 user8 ******************************************************************** I have Postfix running with /Maildir style mailboxes and all the users email gets stored in their /home directory so I am not sure why my Linux / Postfix system is generating these files. I normally don't mess with files in /var unless I know what I am doing which I obviously don't. Can someone tell me: 1 - Why this files are being generated 2 - Can I delete them 3 - How can I prevent future new users from having files generated in this directory All the files are blank / empty so it does not appear to be doing much from what I can see.
