Package: general Severity: important telling user has mail is easy as pi in console mode and when using a server. But how do we tell the user they have mail without a configured mail client when under runlevel 5? The activation of X11 practically hides all console activity.
We would need a UI tool to do this. We cannot assume use of neither gnome nor KDE. User may have MATE or other UI installed.We should make an app indicator(and mail viewer) as lite as possible. Also, when launching xterm or similar, user is never told if they have mail or not.This should be a more eay fix.Since xterm emulates a vterm/getty checking mail this way should never fail. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
