Re: MAILPATH stopped working after update to Bash 4.0

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Chet Ramey wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > I have:
> >
> >   MAILPATH="/home/me/.maildir/new?You have new mail."
> >   MAILCHECK=60
> >
> > Bash 3.2 was correctly telling me about new mail arriving.  However,
> > after I updated to Bash 4.0, I constantly get a "You have new mail."
> > message every minute even though I actually don't have new mail.  Has
> > the mail notification feature changed in Bash 4.0?  I can't see anything
> > relevant in the man page or NEWS file.
> [...]
> I don't use a maildir-aware mail program, but you can debug this by
> setting a breakpoint in mailcheck.c:check_mail().

Learning to debug Bash is not in my todo list right now.  But if there's 
anything else I can do I would be happy to.