explain annoying "You have XXX mail messages"

[Fernan Aguero]

+----[ Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com> (03.Oct.2003 20:44):
|
| Fernan Aguero <fernan at iib.unsam.edu.ar> writes:
| 
| > The default mailbox (/var/mail/fernan) is empty, since I
| > use procmail to deliver messages to several different
| > mailboxes under ~/mail.
| > 
| > Still, I keep receving this message all the time. Right now
| > it says I have 50 messages. What are they? Where are they?
| 
| # echo $MAIL
| 
| should tell you...
|
+----]

Hi!

Thanks for your reply,

[fernan at pi] echo $MAIL
/var/mail/fernan
[fernan at pi] ls -l $MAIL
-rw-rw----  1 fernan  mail  0 Oct  4 09:56 /var/mail/fernan

As I said, the default mailbox (/var/mail/fernan, aka $MAIL)
is empty, since I use procmail to deliver to ~/mail/inbox
(default) and other mailboxes under ~/mail.

I've just sent a reply to another suggestion I got. I've
CC'ed @questions.

Fernan,
still intrigued.


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