Hi Chuck. This would work if I was using the old mbox style mailboxes. The maildir style mailboxes avoid using /var/spool/mail totally. In fact, you could delete that directory, and no e-mail program would care if everything was set up for the maildir mailbox format. Thanks for the suggestion though. Greg On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 06:24:11AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Greg, > > If a user has mail on my Slackware system, there is a non-zero > length file under /var/spool/mail by the same name. You could > write a script to check for the presence of such a file and that > would tell you if the user has mail or not. If there is no mail > for the user, the file is still present but has a length of zero. > > Chuck >
