Re: mailx & maildir & You have new mail in /home/<account>/Maildir

[Stevan Kanban <ojingo@nerim.net>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:28:24AM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote :
> Stevan Kanban wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >in /etc/login.defs
> >#QMAIL_DIR      Maildir/
> >MAIL_DIR        Maildir/
> >#MAIL_FILE      .mail
> >
> >It should be the same mehanism for annoucement that mail arrived both in 
> >login and in <enter> typing action, isn't it?
> >
> >Thanks.
> > 
> 
> AFAIK, you should be using QMAIL_DIR for that, MAIL_DIR is something 
> like /var/mail for where the spool is for your user.
> 
> Also, for the "you have new mail" alerts, in /etc/pam.d/login (or 
> pam.d/ssh, etc) make sure you have
> 
> session    optional   pam_mail.so standard noenv dir=~/Maildir
> 
> in there (again, AFAIK, this seems to work for login via tty's but not ssh)


Thanks it works nice.
I haven't still solved the problem with mailx but the alert at connection is ok.
Now, by recieving this message on my debian mailbox (filtered by procmail), i will check if the alert will pop up too.
-- 
Stevan Kanban