[PLUG] Removing annoying mail notice

Paul Munday paulm at freegeek.org
Fri Jun 14 18:32:40 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 11:07 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> This message frequently pops up on the command line:
> 
>                    You have mail in /var/spool/mail/rshepard
> 
> which tells me what I already know. I've not tracked what triggers
> displaying that message and I've not found where I can turn it off. If you
> know where the switch is located please point me to it so I can eliminate an
> unnecessary annoyance.
 try unset MAILCHECK (in .bashrc etc)

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 


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