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Every time I open the Terminal, I get the "You have mail." message, but I do not have any mail. When I run MAIL it reads, "No mail for myusername". I have tried several methods to prevent this from occurring every time I use the Terminal, including adding unset MAILCHECK to my bash profile.
maxskybarger
Posted 2012-04-10T16:35:28.320
Reputation: 81
2Read your mail. runs – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams – 2012-04-10T16:44:28.950
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see also http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/2432/4667 and http://superuser.com/q/25738/4714
– glenn jackman – 2012-04-10T16:47:38.243yep, check /var/mail/username, as suggested by the above links; maybe something go stuck there – lupincho – 2012-04-10T16:49:52.843
just checked, even having empty directory /var/mail/username results in "you have mail", deleting the 'username' directory in /var/mail fixes this – lupincho – 2012-04-10T16:53:53.150
@maxskybarger -- if there is something in /var/mail/username indeed, you may want to look at the contents and figure out what has sent it; a lot of *nix software sends all sorts of emails by default, you may want to turn that off – lupincho – 2012-04-10T17:03:05.323
2Thanks for the clue. There were two blank lines in /var/mail/username and removing them solved the problem. – maxskybarger – 2012-04-10T18:23:19.153
8Please answer the question yourself so you can mark it as accepted! – slhck – 2012-04-10T18:53:36.950
2Try adding the following line to your ~/.bashrc unset MAILCHECK – Krzysztof Rosiński – 2012-04-10T16:41:34.127