From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 04:27:28 2007 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 A654116A417 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 04:27:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6505913C44B for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 04:27:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l934MNPW045520; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:22:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 9laDLwaHKbbg; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:22:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (dsl.daleco.biz [209.125.108.70]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l934MCfq045512; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:22:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <470318EE.7000002@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:22:06 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070418 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rem P Roberti References: <20071002233538.GA33975@bsd.remdog.net> In-Reply-To: <20071002233538.GA33975@bsd.remdog.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Incoming Mail Announcement 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, 03 Oct 2007 04:27:28 -0000 Rem P Roberti wrote: > > Hi Everyone. More newbie stuff. I finally got Mutt and > Getmail configured properly and everything is > working great. However...this dear woman keeps > intruding on my life to announce to me that I have > "incoming mail," and I have no idea about how to--- > if you will excuse the expression---kill her. A > heads up on this would be most appreciated. > > Rem And which "dear woman" is this? And, if she is really dear, you wouldn't dare to kill her!!! :-D Now, if you're actually talking about the shell, check your shell resource files for the 'set mail' line. On mine, it is: set mail = (/var/mail/$USER) Which I believe defaults to checking the mail every 5 minutes. Change that to: set mail = (86400 /var/mail/$USER) and the old lady will only nudge you once each morning ;-) Probably something a little smaller would be best. Kevin Kinsey -- The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. -- Lenny Bruce