diff --git a/alpine.changes b/alpine.changes
index 10fe9d7..9e49234 100644
--- a/alpine.changes
+++ b/alpine.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun May 16 15:23:42 UTC 2021 - Callum Farmer <gmbr3@opensuse.org>
+
+- Set system mail directory to /var/mail
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan 15 12:04:04 UTC 2021 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/alpine.spec b/alpine.spec
index 7c83be2..9813ed0 100644
--- a/alpine.spec
+++ b/alpine.spec
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ perl -i -pe 's{(define SYSTYPE) "LNX"}{$1 "'"$tag"'"}g' include/config.h
 #
 # imap does not use CFLAGS from configure, needs EXTRACFLAGS/EXTRALDFLAGS:
 #
-%make_build EXTRACFLAGS="$CFLAGS" EXTRALDFLAGS="$EXTRALDFLAGS"
+%make_build EXTRACFLAGS="$CFLAGS" EXTRALDFLAGS="$EXTRALDFLAGS" MAILSPOOL="%{_localstatedir}/mail"
 
 %install
 %make_install