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Wednesday, April 8. 2009
Debian 5 Mailutils and Maildir
When setting up Maildir in Debian 5.0, getting the generic
mail applications working correctly can be tricky.- Install the 'mailutils' package, not the bsd mailx package.
- Do not touch the mailutils /etc/mail.rc file; there are some promising looking variables here like
mailbox-typebut these do not do what is desired. When the MAIL environment variable is set correctly mailutils will automatically detect the maildir box type. - Do not touch /etc/login.defs; the promising looking lines in here are deprecated.
- Edit files in
/etc/pam.d, changing the pam_mail.so lines as shown (assuming ~/Maildir as the selected location):
- login: default login shells
session optional pam_mail.so dir=~/Maildir standard
- su: set up for proper MAIL when using su; nopen does not show 'new mail' message
session optional pam_mail.so dir=~/Maildir nopen
- sshd: set up MAIL properly when logging in with ssh; this line probably has a noenv by default which needs removed to set this properly
session optional pam_mail.so dir=~/Maildir standard
- login: default login shells
