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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >