Actually it didnt exist, the directory is empty:
nveber@pyre[4761:~]$ ls -al /var/mail
total 8
drwxrwsr-x  2 root mail 4096 Jul  8  2010 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Nov  4 22:22 ..
nveber@pyre[4762:~]$

It seems the default mail_location doesnt work for some reason at least
on my system.

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 08:10:55PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> Normally it would be a non-fatal error but your /var/mail/%u did
> exist but didn't have write permission.
> 
> Set mail_location appropriately and everything should work properly
> now and in the future.


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