Package: general Severity: wishlist Often new users encounter You have new mail in /home/nordsburg/Maildir/ $ mail mail: /home/nordsburg/Maildir/: Is a directory
One sees it often. At least the reminder mechanism, knowing where the mail is hidden on the system, could also give a hint in its message of at least one basic way of reading ones mail. Otherwise one can just cd ... ls ... cd ... ls ... cat. Anyway, apparently it is so easy for system administrators to turn their system into a Maildir system, leaving users in the lurch. Bash's MAILPATH's custom messages in /etc/profile perhaps is a candidate, but is it applicable to directories? And then it must get pasted into /etc/profile. $ apropos Maildir maildir: nothing appropriate. $ apropos mail|wc -l 172 $ apt-cache search maildir|wc -l 67 Then I suppose he would use dlocate -l to see which of those were installed. Anyway, by now our grandma's initial joy at "You've got mail!" will surely be her last. Anyway, it's too easy for a Debian system to end up this way. Perhaps make dependency/alternatives between Maildir enabled clients and servers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
