Re: bash $MAIL bug in Bookworm

[tomas]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 04:04:12PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote:
> I have recently upgraded to Bookworm.
> 
> I have set:
> 
>   MAIL=/var/spool/mail/addw
>   MAILCHECK=60
> 
> I find that when doing filename expansion, by pressing TAB, that the 'You have
> mail' message appears when it should not. In the example below I pressed TAB
> after the letter 'T' (which gave me expansion 'TODO'). I am running bash.
> 
>   $ me TYou have mail in /var/spool/mail/addw
>   ODO

You can always look for bugs filed against a package in the package's bug
page. In this case, this would be here [1].

Your bug looks a lot like this one [2]. It seems to be pretty old (2012),
so you might consider politely pinging the maintainer.

Cheers

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=bash
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686794

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bash $MAIL bug in Bookworm

[Alain D D Williams]

I have recently upgraded to Bookworm.

I have set:

MAIL=/var/spool/mail/addw
MAILCHECK=60

I find that when doing filename expansion, by pressing TAB, that the 'You have
mail' message appears when it should not. In the example below I pressed TAB
after the letter 'T' (which gave me expansion 'TODO'). I am running bash.

$ me TYou have mail in /var/spool/mail/addw
ODO

Should I report this elsewhere ?

Regards

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