[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#470059: Bug#470059: No Mail vs. Maildirs

Nicolas François nicolas.francois at centraliens.net
Wed Apr 2 22:39:02 UTC 2008


On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 05:45:17AM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> Hmmm, maybe login should just check for mail in all the current common
> places by default:
> *The administrator will probably never get around to configure this.
> *The user might have customized his own (to one of the other common choices)
> *Nice to know you have mail where you never expected it.
> 
> Or maybe it should be the user's responsibility to check in
> .profile... but they won't, as discovered around year 1970.
> 
> OK bye.

The paragraph should change in a later version in Debian.

login does not check for mails when configured to use PAM. The manpage
will be updated.

However, when configured with PAM, pam_mail will set the
MAIL environment variable and will check for new mails.

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral





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