From: Carlos Williams (carloswillgmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 19 2009 - 16:02:09 CDT

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I notice that when I create a user in my Postfix server, I also create
a file located in /var/spool/mail:

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[rootmail 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

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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.

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