Re: console mail notification

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:18:27 -0700, Иван wrote:

Hello,

I'd like to know what makes "You have new mail in /var/log/'user'"
prompt; after login, and during sessions

I'm using a basic Debian Etch, with just 'mail' and 'exim4', no biff nor
fetchmail.

See your bash(1) manpage and look for the MAIL, MAILCHECK and MAILPATH
shell variables.


Regards,

Kees.

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Kees Theunissen.
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