On Wednesday 09 Jan 2013 04:08:30 David Guntner wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know where the $MAIL environment variable get set when a > user logs in? It's not in the ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc files that get > put in when the account is created. I'm not sure where to look.... > > Thanks! > > --Dave Dave On my system $MAIL is set in /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/su See "man pam_mail" Steven.