Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:23:15 -0600 From: Steve Randall <srandall52@gmail.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> Subject: Re: I have mail, but where? Message-ID: <20091222182315.3e73f946@locust.local> In-Reply-To: <4B314D4E.1020706@netfence.it> References: <4B314061.4090001@netfence.it> <27ade5280912221428u7f71f71es29aa31700a31b4a5@mail.gmail.com> <4B314D4E.1020706@netfence.it>
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On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:50:54 +0100 Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote: > APseudoUtopia ha scritto: > > Type "mail" > > You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/. > %mail > No mail for andrea Are there really two spaces in a row there? That's a vital clue. For some reason your 'USER' environment variable is set to ' andrea' (with a leading space). Then .cshrc sets the 'mail' shell variable to '(/var/mail/ andrea)'. That's now a list with two elements. Since the first is a directory, csh counts the files in it, assuming they are messages. Since you don't have this problem with console logins, look for a configuration error in your GUI login manager. HTH
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