Re: Where does $MAIL get set?
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:35 AM, David Guntner <davidg@akamail.net> wrote:
> Igor Cicimov grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:08 PM, David Guntner <davidg@akamail.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know where the $MAIL environment variable get set when a
>>> user logs in? It's not in the ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc files that get
>>> put in when the account is created. I'm not sure where to look....
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> /etc/profile
>
> That's where I figured it would be. It ain't there. :-) I've searched
> in the places I would expect to find it and several others that seemed
> like they'd be worth a shot (/etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/bash_completion,
> /etc/bash_completion.d, /etc/profile.d and of course, /etc/profile).
> Scored a big zero for my efforts.
>
> Is there somewhere else that it's likely to be hiding?
MAIL is not set in my environment either (Wheezy/amd64).
Try the following and see if it shows up in any file
find $HOME -type f -exec egrep -Hn MAIL {} \;
HTH
-- Arun Khan
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