http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557239 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557239#c0 Summary: System mail constantly creates ~/Maildir but can not read from it Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: vendion@charter.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 SUSE/3.5.4-1.1.2 Firefox/3.5.4 During installation I selected "recieves system mail" option for my user account. Now some point in the night ~/Maildir is created and contains my system mail but when I use the mail program all it says is that there is no mail for my user. vendion@Big-O:~> mail No mail for vendion vendion@Big-O:~> ls | grep Maildir Maildir vendion@Big-O:~> ls Maildir/new 1258693203.V807I18M215707.Big-O I may be wrong but shouldn't the Maildir be in /var/spool/mail/ instead of the users $HOME? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set a user account to recieve system mail 2. Install/enable something that runs nightly and sends output through the system mail, I have seccheck installed 3. try to read the mail generated the next day with the "mail" command Actual Results: Mail outputs "No mail for $USER" Expected Results: To be able to read the system mail -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.