topic Re: Mail in Operating System - Linux

Mail

Dushyant.Tyagi — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:39:20 GMT

Dear Gurus
i want to know that how can i Stop the Message "You have new Mail" IN Linux System . is it Possible or not . if Yes then plz let me know , how to Stop

Dushyant

Re: Mail

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:35:10 GMT

Yes, you must unset the MAILCHECK environment variable in the .bash_profile or /etc/profile, or set to a value like -1. For example:

vi .bash_profile

export MAILCHECK=-1

or

vi .bash_profile

unset MAILCHECK

Re: Mail

Dushyant.Tyagi — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:13:00 GMT

Thank You Ivan
I tried to put the entry in #/etc/profile and
#.bash_profile also . but it not Worked . i m still getting the alert "You Have Mail".

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# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
USERNAME="root"

export USERNAME BASH_ENV PATH
export MAILCHECK=-1

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Re: Mail

Alpha977 — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:49:51 GMT

Hello!

If you receive a "new mail" is probable you have something not work correctly with crontab.
See into the crontab if a script corrupted is launched.

Then, you can edit the /etc/aliases and change the root address:

root : your_mail_account@yourdomain.com

or

you can create another user then "su" and become root, then you don't see mail message.