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Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]



On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:25:59AM +0200, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> 2009/5/7 Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net>:

>> However, I very much dislike this Unix "feature" as it means mail can
>> accumulate on any {user,system} account on any computer and not get
>> noticed by the {user,system administrator}.

> Not getting mail from cron is worse I think...  I would instead like
> to have something popping up when I log in in X saying me "You have
> mail", like it happens by default if I log in from terminal (and in
> movies from the '80s).

Just add pam_mail to e.g. /etc/pam.d/gdm (if you use gdm).

-- 
Lionel


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