[Gllug] emai notification on login

[Konrad Vrba]

thanks for your suggestions,
I am not using POP or IMAP, I am reading my emails locally using Alpine
email client.
In my home directory, there is a "mail" folder where Alpine stores my
"sent-messages". But my incoming emails are kept in /var/mail/$username. Is
there any reason why this should be different ? I am using postfix as a
mail server.

Konrad

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:49 PM, John Edwards
<john at cornerstonelinux.co.uk>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:40:12AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> >
> > John Edwards writes:
> >
> >> To be honest you would probably be better served by setting up an
> >> forward or alias to get those emails off the server into a more
> >> "modern" email system which is more familar to you and which you
> >> can access with an email client using IMAP or POP3.
> >
> > Why are you assuming that the presence of $MAIL implies an obsolete
> > mail reading system? And why are you assuming that IMAP or POP3 are
> > desireable? While those things may be true, they're certainly not
> > necessarily so. I have no need for IMAP or POP3, for example.
>
> Not obsolete, but not common. Most of my email is still in mbox files,
> sorted and delivered by procmail, and read by mutt. Dovecot has been
> layered on top to provide IMAP access.
>
> But I am aware that is is not what new users are used to, and rather
> than talk someone through the setup of a new mail system I think it
> might be easier for them to pass the email on to an existing mail
> system that is already working.
>
>
> > To answer the original question, it all depends on what you're
> > using to read mail, and where it stores its information about which
> > messages are unread.
>
> On most distributions the "You have mail" message at login is probably
> handled by pam_mail.
>
> Having read the man page there is a "quiet" option that claims to
> "Only report when there is new mail". But editing a system's PAM
> configuration can be rather dangerous and leave the system unusable,
> especially if we don't know what distribution is being used.
>
> But for those who want to try it, this may work on Debian/Ubuntu:
>    sed -i.bak 's/pam_mail.so standard/pam_mail.so quiet/g' /etc/pam.d/login
>
> The original unchanged file is saved as /etc/pam.d/login.bak .
>
>
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