F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

[Till Maas]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:15:54PM -0600, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> > Bash usually tells you when there is mail in the spool, which is IMHO a
> > big difference to /dev/null.
> 
> Funny, I just ssh'd into my machine, and it didn't tell me anything
> about mail being in the spool, but when I do an ls on the spool
> directory, there it is.
> 
> Maybe it has something to do with that users don't often log in as root.

Oh, sorry, I was imprecise. Bash actually tells you when new mail is put
into the spool. E.g. if you log in as root, touch /var/spool/root and
wait up to 60 seconds and run e.g. ls, bash should tell you that there
is new mail before the next prompt.

Regards
Till