To answer my own mail ...

I've never had to do this before but this is what did the trick to show mail on login and ssh login:

/etc/pam.d/login - add the following line: session optional pam_mail.so standard

/etc/pam.d/sshd - add the following line: session optional pam_mail.so standard noenv

For anyone who's interested.

I have a few servers running CentOS release 5.4 (Final) and none of them are displaying a "you have new mail" message on login.

I've asked Professor Google but he is strangely silent. Have I neglected an important setting? I thought this was a default on most linux ditributions.

Any help much appreciated.

Ian

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