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If you see the message "You have mail." at startup, but do not actually have
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any mail waiting for you, you most likely have some mail remnant left-over by
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your mail program from an earlier session.
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That message comes when the system checks:
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/var/spool/mail/$USER # $USER is your username
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You can check the contents yourself by using cat(1):
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cat /var/spool/mail/$USER
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If the only thing you see is a system message saying something to the effect of
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"this is a default file, don't delete", then you CAN actually delete it to
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clear the message, like so:
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rm /var/spool/mail/$USER
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If you see anything else in the spool file then you really do have new mail.
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Open up your favorite mail program (e.g., alpine, mutt, mailx) and read it!
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<a href="/var/wiki/index.html">Home</a>
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