On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 05:45:17AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
