On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM <kan...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > From: Matt Jolly <kan...@gentoo.org> > > The Gentoo Handbook has, for a long time, provided instructions to create > new users with the -m flag. However, this now results in the error > "Creating mailbox file: No such file or directory" because > `/var/spool/mail` is no longer included in stage3 tarballs.
An alternative would be to change the default shadow config to disable CREATE_MAIL_SPOOL, or switch to using MAIL_FILE (relative to home directory) instead. The @system change seems less disruptive.
