From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 22 22:28:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04DC106568F for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:28:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from apseudoutopia@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com (mail-ew0-f226.google.com [209.85.219.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45BD78FC08 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so3183635ewy.3 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:28:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Md24SdKTfY5zq8abeytSDz+jKo2q8lfecLlSYYf6KSM=; b=tC36+/G/BVPEFXOWzPVYbVLDKQ2wxj802mr2zMX0P3wVDbk63PQcouxzHF6pU2M0mH 8G0cvWOZ5qDsZxu8NMzuoN1whD5z/O6T7JgDRhT4u31O6r3kKhk/u1tJRVHO6zrvojA/ cQKXb2/gVNlYeplcIMgZckoJS1JUilJe7wPco= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IBgoWdwc50SbOL18yh2k2iHYjeHqfeRJjqiEWcz2KSxkAAUJBn6mGkefyKmAumwI6m bInlmWkAZv+9VznCThB1j95kUZzLeSljelOVtWYClf79CI1TgHjDPs+qf6TWv6atJzIi Ik0GBCR7z6wVHVC/U7eS9hbo6EgeBT/46AJwo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.88.83 with SMTP id z61mr3139665wee.140.1261520919236; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:28:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B314061.4090001@netfence.it> References: <4B314061.4090001@netfence.it> From: APseudoUtopia Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:28:19 -0500 Message-ID: <27ade5280912221428u7f71f71es29aa31700a31b4a5@mail.gmail.com> To: Andrea Venturoli Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I have mail, but where? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:28:40 -0000 On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > > This evening something new appeared on my box. > When I open an xterm or a KDE shell, I get: > "You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/." > > This does not happen when I login on ttyvX. > > Nothing mail related is on this box (apart from KMail and Thunderbird) an= d > "ls -l /var/mail" gives only zero size files, none of which is named afte= r > me. > > My home is NFS mounted on a mail server, but that uses Cyrus IMAP, so, > again, nothing relevant is in /var/mail even there. > > Where do I look? > > This is no stopper, but I'm just curious... > > =C2=A0bye & Thanks > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0av. Type "mail" man 1 mail FreeBSD has a daily cron security and status script that run and send email to root (which then is usually redirected to another user's account). This is probably what is sending the emails - check it and see.