Re: stop "You have mail in /var/mail/mike"

[Mike McClain <mike.junk.46@att.net>]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 07:18:38PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
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> Did this only start recently?  What changed?

It's been going on for a while but happened just as I was getting ready
to read mail, therefore the post.

<snip>

> I do apologize for a mis-statement in my previous email, though.

No apologies necessary, I watch for your posts because I make MANY
more mistakes than I've ever seen you make.

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> What does "ps" show is running on this terminal?

In the file that had 'export MAILCHECK=0', I replaced it with
unset MAILCHECK
export MAILCHECK
then ran 'unset MAILCHECK' on every open tty.
BTW, MAILCHECK="" sets it at 0.
shoptmailwarn was already off.

Someone else suggested /etc/aliases which in my case has sent
everything to root then root to mike for over 20+ years and there is
no system mail being generated at that time.

If 'unset MAILCHECK' doesn't do the trick I'll try to remember to
check ps output.

Thanks for the ideas.
Be Well,
Mike

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