Re: You have new mail
>
> Hi!
>
> When loging in, my users sometimes get the message 'You have
> mail', when in fact they have new mail.
>
> Also, in redhat whenever they received new mail and they where in
> the bash shell, they'd get the 'You have new mail' after any command. In
> debian they don't.
>
I think in /etc/profile, you have to include
export MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/$USER
(untested)
See man bash and look for MAILPATH.
HTH,
Eric Meijer
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