[luau] mail storage question

[Eric Jeschke]

On 17 May 2002, Rodney Kanno wrote:

| Where does Linux store cron messages and other system email? I have
| tried importing in  /var/spool/mail/"user name" in evolution and other
| mail programs, but it comes up blank. Although when I open up pine,
| there is 100+ messages in the inbox. Looking in the config for pine, the
| inbox path is set to default (no path shown).
| 
| Thanks,
| Rodney

It's actually more of a distribution/configuration/mail transfer agent
thing than a "Linux" thing, but RedHat/sendmail (in the default
configuration) stores incoming mail in /var/spool/mail. 

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