[arch-general] "You have mail" message at login

gt static.vortex at gmx.com
Tue Oct 16 11:33:58 EDT 2012


On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:33:53AM -0400, Sébastien Leblanc wrote:
> On 16 October 2012 01:42, gt <static.vortex at gmx.com> wrote:
> > Whenever I log in to a TTY, I get this message. I read my system mails
> > through mutt, so i don't need this.
> 
> Pam is taking care of showing whether you have mail or not. In
> /etc/pam.d/system-login, comment this line:
> 
>     session    optional   pam_mail.so          dir=/var/spool/mail standard
> 
> You should not get new mail prompts anymore.

That did it! I had searched in the pam directory earlier, but didn't
grep through the files for mail.

Thanks a lot.


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