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

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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Krzysztof Warzecha wrote:
> 2012/10/16 gt <static.vortex at gmx.com>:
> > Any idea what's causing it to show up?
> 
> Well, you could always try brute force method. Login and run this as root:
> 
> strace -vft -p $TARGET_GETTY_PID -o /tmp/strace-getty
> 
> Now login in straced terminal, logout and grep for "New mail" in
> /tmp/strace-getty. You will get (among other things) pid of process
> which wrote "new mail" on screen. You can easily find (with grep)
> parent process. I believe you know what to do from here ;).

Ingenious method. Though I read sebastien's reply earlier and hence had
found the culprit, i nevertheless tried yours too. First line of
strace-getty showed pam_mail.so.

Thanks.