How do I make SSH use the MAIL variable set by /etc/login.defs?

RyanA · 08-15-2003, 06:36 AM

The problem I'm having is when a user logs in with SSH the $MAIL var = /var/mail/user! If I "su - user" MAIL is correctly set to ~user/mail

Next, I edited /etc/login.defs commenting out MAIL_DIR and setting the correct path for QMAIL_DIR & MAIL_FILE

exim is configured to deliver email to: ~user/mail -- I have verified that mail is correctly being delivered to ~user/mail/new

updated login & ssh in /etc/pam.d/ so that can correctly inform users of new mail upon login -- This works as expected

RyanA · 08-15-2003, 12:03 PM

I finally managed to solve this by adding MAIL=~/mail to /etc/profile ... I'm not sure if that's the best way to solve the problem. mail now gives me the error

Quote:

mail: /home/user/mail/: Is a directory

...which means mail isn't configured to support the Maildir format and I haven't been able to find any information on how to change that through searching. MUTT does work, though!