On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:07:41 -0800, ME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With Gentoo, I get the "You have new mail..." message, but I don't have > the proper application to read it (and do not know what to emerge). > > Moreover, I am not able to find the messages! I looked under /root, > under /var and did not find any (I might just be missing them, but I > suspect they are not getting where they should).
This sometimes happens when the $MAIL environment variable gets set wrong. The directory specified in that variable will be watched for new mail; sometimes (I think this is mainly a problem with "su", but I'm not sure) it gets set to "/root" and gets confused. -- Be the person your dog thinks you are -- [email protected] mailing list
