Package: finger
Version: 0.17-10
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

>From my preliminary research (running strings on the binary) it seems
that finger only supports looking at an mbox file in /var/mail to
determine if a fingered user has mail/when they've last read it etc.

This is a bit suboptimal on a system with maildir mailboxes. It'd be
nice if it could consult PAM or something to figure out how the system
is configured to deliver mail, and check the configured location.

No idea if this is actually feasible or practical.

regards

Andrew

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