how to disable the "you have new mail" message?
 

I would like to know how to disable the "You have new mail" message?

thanks!!!

 

Where does the message appear?

in the virtual or terminal window...and yes there is really a new message in my inbox but i want to disable that feature because i regularly check my email..it just appears after typing a command, after logging in...

Type "biff n" to disable mail notification. You'll want to put it in your shell startup scripts so you do not need to type it each time you login.

--jeremy

hey,,thank you very much...anyway..do you thing putting that command at the rc.local will disable the mail notification for all users?

thanks again.!!!

That would just disable it for root. To disable it for all users put it in /etc/bashrc and /etc/csh.login (There may be others depending on what shells your users use).

--jeremy

that's great!! thank you very much!!!

simple create a .nohush file .

hm.. i know there is a proper way to disable that message, without
adding a new command to a startup script; i have done it before,
but i forgot how to, and no where i can find how to disable that
message. if someone knows of a clean way to disable it - by changing
a variable in a script somewhere from on to off or by commenting
something out, without adding a new command in a script to mask
the message, please let me know.

often the mail message is actually sourced with PAM, so you can try just removing it from the relevant config file in /etc/pam.d/ i had to add it in in gentoo to get that to happen.