tlug: Mail directory

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

I've been having trouble seeing locally delivered mail (which is in
/var/mail/ ).

man mail says:
   -u  is equivalent to: mail -f /var/mail/user

But mine seems to be equivalent to /var/spool/mail/user, and the bottom of
man mail says:
 FILES
     /var/spool/mail/*           Post office.

I've made the symbolic link so the problem has kind of gone away, but I'm
wondering if this is hard-coded into mail, or is a setting somewhere on my
system? If the latter, can someone point me to the likely file?

Darren

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