diff -uNrp shadow-4.0.4.1-rh-owl-redhat/src/useradd.c shadow-4.0.4.1-owl-create-mailbox/src/useradd.c

--- shadow-4.0.4.1-rh-owl-redhat/src/useradd.c	2004-02-28 14:58:46 +0000

+++ shadow-4.0.4.1-owl-create-mailbox/src/useradd.c	2004-02-28 15:35:59 +0000

@@ -1728,6 +1728,41 @@ static void create_home (void)

 	}

 }

+static void

+create_mailbox(void)

+{

+	char *spool, *file;

+	int fd;

+	struct group *gr;

+	gid_t gid;

+	mode_t mode;

+

+	spool = getdef_str("MAIL_DIR") ?: "/var/mail";

+	file = alloca(strlen(spool) + strlen(user_name) + 2);

+	sprintf(file, "%s/%s", spool, user_name);

+	fd = open(file, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_EXCL, 0);

+	if (fd < 0) {

+		perror("Creating mailbox");

+		return;

+	}

+

+	gr = getgrnam("mail");

+	if (!gr) {

+		fprintf(stderr, "Group \"mail\" not found, "

+			"creating the mailbox mode 0600.\n");

+		gid = user_gid;

+		mode = 0600;

+	} else {

+		gid = gr->gr_gid;

+		mode = 0660;

+	}

+

+	if (fchown(fd, user_id, gid) || fchmod(fd, mode))

+		perror("Setting mailbox permissions");

+

+	close(fd);

+}

+

 #ifdef USE_PAM

 static struct pam_conv conv = {

 	misc_conv,

@@ -1904,6 +1939,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)

 	if (mflg) {

 		create_home ();

+		create_mailbox ();

 		copy_tree (def_template, user_home, user_id, user_gid, 1);

 	}