From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 23 08:45:28 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 4D4D51065672 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:45:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086E58FC0A for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:45:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.173.17.209] (helo=izar) by services.ipt.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1NNMqU-00095U-B3; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:45:26 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov To: Andrea Venturoli References: <4B314061.4090001@netfence.it> <27ade5280912221428u7f71f71es29aa31700a31b4a5@mail.gmail.com> <4B314D4E.1020706@netfence.it> <20091222182315.3e73f946@locust.local> <4B31CF30.9030704@netfence.it> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:45:27 +0300 In-Reply-To: <4B31CF30.9030704@netfence.it> (Andrea Venturoli's message of "Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:05:04 +0100") Message-ID: <43183640@ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Steve Randall , 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: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:45:28 -0000 On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:05:04 +0100 Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Steve Randall ha scritto: > >> No mail for andrea > > Are there really two spaces in a row there? That's a vital clue. > Sure. I noticed that too, but though it might be normal. > > 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. > This is interesting... > Unfortunately (or luckily), today that message does not appear > anymore, so I can't check. Which message are you talking about? Is it a message "You have new mail"? The latter shows only once if there is a new mail. The system doesn't prompt you when there is unread mail. So you should actually read (and delete, save, etc.) your mail. -- WBR, bsam