{"id":4018,"date":"2024-10-10T18:41:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2024-10-10T18:41:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:41:46","slug":"how-to-have-email-status-from-maildir-under-motd-ubuntu-24-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2024\/10\/10\/how-to-have-email-status-from-maildir-under-motd-ubuntu-24-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to have email status from ~\/Maildir under motd (Ubuntu 24.04)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently set up my local mail to go into <code>~\/Maildir<\/code>. But when logging in on a console, the mail notification under motd still seemed to assume my mail being somewhere else (under \/var\/mail maybe), as it only ever said<\/p>\n<pre><code>You do not have any new mail.<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>I figured out that this message is generated by <a href=\"https:\/\/manpages.ubuntu.com\/manpages\/noble\/man8\/pam_mail.8.html\">pam_mail<\/a>, and it&#8217;s possible to configure it to use <code>~\/Maildir<\/code> with the <code>dir=<\/code> parameter. There&#8217;s separate configuration for each of (local) login, ssh and su in <code>\/etc\/pam.d\/login<\/code>, <code>\/etc\/pam.d\/sshd<\/code> and <code>\/etc\/pam.d\/su<\/code> respectively. For instance, <code>\/etc\/pam.d\/login<\/code> has this line:<\/p>\n<pre><code>session    optional   pam_mail.so standard<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>which I changed to<\/p>\n<pre><code>session    optional   pam_mail.so dir=~\/Maildir standard<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>and now the note under motd reflects what&#8217;s in my <code>~\/Maildir<\/code>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add dir=~\/Maildir to pam_mail&#8217;s parameters in \/etc\/pam.d\/{login,sshd,su}.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}