On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:33:39PM +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to create a "mailboxfile" in /var/mail/ and I am just > wondering what the format for such a file is and how you create one. I am > not even sure if it is supposed to be a special kind of file or if it is a > special kind of directory. > > I've tried reading a linuxbook, "Running Linux" more precisly, but I could > not find anything in it that I could apply... > > I am running Woody and my MTA is exim.
If you're using mbox format, it's just a file. An empty mbox is just a zero-sized file. So "touch /var/mail/<filename>" will create an empty mbox. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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