On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 08:08:30 PM David Guntner wrote: > Hi, > > 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! > > --Dave Hi I just typed----echo $MAIL And it came back with --/var/spool/mail/username. Hope this helps. I run PCLinuxOS 2012.12 Gerald