Re: Anybody working on removing sendmail from base?

[Timothy Cava <timothy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Timothy Cava wrote:
> Hiten Pandya wrote:
>
> >     Timothy,
> >
> >     Shouldn't this be something that the shell should do?
> >
> >     Regards,
>
>
> Perhaps. FreeBSD doesn't take that approach, however, hence my
> patch. I suppose I can make login not check, and do it with the
> shell?
>
> -Timothy

I don't mean to reply to myself, but you guys aren't missing the fact
that login(1) checks MAIL at login time? It doesn't care whether it's
a directory or a file, I consider this a bug. At the least it should
say "$MAIL is a directory." or be silent. Instead it tells the user
"You have mail.". If this isn't a bug, think about whether MAIL should
have to be set to an mbox style drop for the rest of FreeBSD's life--
I hope not.

-Timothy