From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 10:41:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (tnt1-166.quicksilver.net.nz [202.89.142.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FC237B426 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:41:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g08IhFM00902; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 07:43:15 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 07:43:15 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Allen May Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I get rid of the mail message? Message-ID: <20020109074314.A251@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <009b01c197fe$7b7ad760$9601a8c0@nrwrkxp01> <04f601c19834$d5994e80$0401a8c0@Hewey> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <04f601c19834$d5994e80$0401a8c0@Hewey>; from umayxa3@donet.com on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:08:42AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:08:42AM -0500, Allen May wrote: > When I sign onto my FreeBSD 4.4 machine, it always prompts me that it has new mail. > I don't care if this machine ever gets mail.. How do I turn this off? Either read the mail or "cp /dev/null /var/mail/user". -- Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche | To be is to do -- Sartre | Scooby do be do -- Scooby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message