Mark Murray writes:
>
> > Your adduser program doesn't create new user's mailboxes automatically?
>
> Of course not. Many mail readers/POPservers remove mailboxes when they are
> empty.
Ah, but if it isn't publicly-writable they can't! :-)
Seriously, at least some such agents use the algorithm "unlink the file if
I can, truncate it to zero length if I can't".
Chris Thompson Cambridge University Computing Service,
Email: cet1@??? New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
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