DragonFlyBSD

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:57:25PM +0100, Michal Belczyk wrote:

the attached patch makes creation of /var/mail/username files for new accounts
a bit more configurable. Since I only use maildirs for mail storage, now I
don't have to remove those files when adding new users :-)

Am I reading this correctly and it does that by default?

Joerg

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 09:29:54PM +0100, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:57:25PM +0100, Michal Belczyk wrote:

the attached patch makes creation of /var/mail/username files for new accounts
a bit more configurable. Since I only use maildirs for mail storage, now I
don't have to remove those files when adding new users :-)

Am I reading this correctly and it does that by default?

The default behaviour hasn't changed, pw(8) do creates those files:

1. cat /etc/pw.conf
2. pw useradd testuser -m
3. ls l /var/mail/testuser
   -rw------ 1 testuser testuser 0 Mar 19 21:45 /var/mail/testuser
4. pw userdel testuser -r
5. ls -l /var/mail/testuser
   ls: /var/mail/testuser: No such file or directory
6. printf "createmailbox\tno\n" >> /etc/pw.conf
7. pw useradd testuser -m
8. ls -l /var/mail/testuser
   ls: /var/mail/testuser: No such file or directory

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 09:49:01PM +0100, Michal Belczyk wrote:

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 09:29:54PM +0100, joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:57:25PM +0100, Michal Belczyk wrote:

the attached patch makes creation of /var/mail/username files for new accounts
a bit more configurable. Since I only use maildirs for mail storage, now I
don't have to remove those files when adding new users :-)

Am I reading this correctly and it does that by default?

The default behaviour hasn't changed, pw(8) do creates those files:

OK, thanks for clarifying this.

Joerg

As far as I can see, this adds the option to pw(8) to create mailboxes or not.
Does anyone consider this addition appropiate? If yes, please commit.

I don't think this is necessary.