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Old 04-17-2009
Sendmail /VAR/SPOOL/MAIL
Hi,

First Question: In our company our users have their mailboxes in /var/spool/mail
When I look at the users file it seems as if every email sent/received is in that user file! Is this because IMAP is being used or is that just how sendmail works?

Second Question: How is that when I create a user account on the system, the users /var/spool/mail file is created as well?
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Old 04-17-2009
Its the same on my server, CentOS 5.2.

In /etc/profile MAIL_DIR is set to /var/spool/mail/$USER

Some change this so mail is in the users home directory.
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Old 04-17-2009
But is the file ever changed?
Yes,

But does the spool file always contain all the emails sent and received? Or is this due to configuration.
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Old 04-17-2009
On my systems /var/spool/mail/$USER contains Incoming mail.
and /var/spool/mqueue contains outbound mail.

But I am not using IMAP which might contain all sent and received mail. Look at the config for your IMAP server.
 
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