/var/mail/<user> and /var/spool/mail/<user> - ignore question, bad me

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

Sorry, missed the fact that it is a link and I changed the file in
between checking.

my bad

-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>
> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: /var/mail/<user> and /var/spool/mail/<user>
> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 02:31:56 +0200
> 
> I saw that there are these two directories. /var/mail/<user> seems to be
> in mbox formal and /var/spool/mail/<user> in maildir format.
> They both seem to coexist on my system and I was wondering what program
> is writing to which and is there some sync between them in either
> direction?
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Micha Feigin
michf@math.tau.ac.il