Re: mail moved from /var/spool/mail/username to ~username/mbox , only for some users?

Thank you for the response.

Does ~/mbox need to have any data in it to be valid?  I have tried 
creating a blank file ~/mbox  by doing "echo > mbox" and make sure it is 
chown to the user, but this did not make the mail copy to this file from 
/var/spool/mail when an IMAPd connection is made.

Regards,

Kevin Long



On 4/13/2011 12:32 PM, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote:
> Your binaries were compiled with
>
> EXTRADRIVERS=mbox
>
> This means that if ~/mbox exists, then whenever a program linked with
> c-client (like imapd, ipop3d, alpine) accesses the mail spool
> (/var/mail/username) mail is copied from there to ~/mbox. The
> combination of those two files is INBOX. If ~/mbox does not exist,
> then mail is processed as expected.