Bug#354417: marked as done (general: "You have new mail" but how to read?)
Your message dated Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:01:49 +0100
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and subject line Bug#354417: general: "You have new mail" but how to read?
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am
talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration
somewhere. Please contact me immediately.)
Debian bug tracking system administrator
(administrator, Debian Bugs database)
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Package: general
Severity: wishlist
Often new users encounter
You have new mail in /home/nordsburg/Maildir/
$ mail
mail: /home/nordsburg/Maildir/: Is a directory
One sees it often. At least the reminder mechanism, knowing where the
mail is hidden on the system, could also give a hint in its message of
at least one basic way of reading ones mail. Otherwise one can just cd
... ls ... cd ... ls ... cat.
Anyway, apparently it is so easy for system administrators to turn
their system into a Maildir system, leaving users in the lurch.
Bash's MAILPATH's custom messages in /etc/profile perhaps is a candidate,
but is it applicable to directories? And then it must get pasted into
/etc/profile.
$ apropos Maildir
maildir: nothing appropriate.
$ apropos mail|wc -l
172
$ apt-cache search maildir|wc -l
67
Then I suppose he would use dlocate -l to see which of those were
installed. Anyway, by now our grandma's initial joy at "You've got
mail!" will surely be her last.
Anyway, it's too easy for a Debian system to end up this way.
Perhaps make dependency/alternatives between Maildir enabled clients
and servers?
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#include <hallo.h>
* Dan Jacobson [Sun, Feb 26 2006, 08:00:49AM]:
> Package: general
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Often new users encounter
> You have new mail in /home/nordsburg/Maildir/
> $ mail
> mail: /home/nordsburg/Maildir/: Is a directory
>
> One sees it often. At least the reminder mechanism, knowing where the
There is no general problem. Debian's default mail configuration works
sufficiently. Since you or your administrator decided to switch the
setup to a Maildir configuration, you need to change the MUA settings
accordingly. Especially you need to use an appropriate MUA which "mail"
hardly is, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=197273.
Talk to your system administrator or somebody close to you who knows how
Maildir works and which things you need to care about.
Eduard.
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