MAIL environment variable and GDM

2005-11-18 Thread Steven Rostedt
Hi all, I just noticed (because I now need it) that the MAIL environment variable is not being set when I log in through GDM. If I ssh in, or just simply do a su to the same user account, the MAIL variable is set. But it just doesn't get set when logging in through GDM. Now with with the

Re: Maildir and MAIL environment variable?

2001-08-17 Thread Matti Airas
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:09:29AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Why would you be running an MUA that doesn't understand maildir format > if you store all your mail in maildir folders? This seems like one of > those "If it hurts when you do that, don't do it" situations. That would happen in a mu

Re: Maildir and MAIL environment variable?

2001-08-16 Thread Craig Dickson
Matti Airas wrote: > I wonder which would be the proper way to set MAIL environment > variable when delivering mail to $HOME/Maildir? If I only set > QMAIL_DIR in /etc/login.defs, I get the additional MAILDIR environment > variable, but MAIL still points to /var/spool/mail/$USE

Maildir and MAIL environment variable?

2001-08-16 Thread Matti Airas
Hi, I wonder which would be the proper way to set MAIL environment variable when delivering mail to $HOME/Maildir? If I only set QMAIL_DIR in /etc/login.defs, I get the additional MAILDIR environment variable, but MAIL still points to /var/spool/mail/$USER. I can set MAIL_FILE to "Ma

Re: MAIL environment variable.

2001-01-15 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jools Smyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > previously on my system when i su'd between users and run mutt the > MAIL env vcariable would be setup to the user i su'd to so the mail > spool file could be found. Some package upgrade must have changed > something as this no longer works. Start a login

MAIL environment variable.

2001-01-15 Thread Jools Smyth
previously on my system when i su'd between users and run mutt the MAIL env vcariable would be setup to the user i su'd to so the mail spool file could be found. Some package upgrade must have changed something as this no longer works. i can ofcourse i could put something into .bashrc but i want a