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retypedef 05-15-2004 03:24 AM
How to disable the new mail notification in console mode?
 
Hi, guys

My shell is bash, and whenever I receive a mail in my spool file, I get the
prompt message - you have new mail in /path/to/spool. How can I disable this
function?

Many thx!

retypedef 05-15-2004 10:54 PM
Got it
 
It's related to these two environment variables: MAIL & MAILPATH.

shogun1234 11-03-2009 08:11 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by retypedef (Post 935570)
It's related to these two environment variables: MAIL & MAILPATH.
So how do you disable it? Or simply redirect it to /dev/null?

gatoatigrado 03-20-2010 03:10 AM
I think you can add
export MAIL=
to ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc
but I'm not sure.

SemiBeard 03-20-2010 06:23 PM
linux - to disable mail notification
 
try the biff command: 'biff n'

Quote:
Originally Posted by retypedef (Post 934156)
Hi, guys

My shell is bash, and whenever I receive a mail in my spool file, I get the
prompt message - you have new mail in /path/to/spool. How can I disable this
function?

Many thx!

saagar 03-20-2010 07:21 PM
SemiBeard, useful one, thanks.

gatoatigrado 03-21-2010 04:15 AM
SemiBeard, that sounds like a better solution, but it doesn't work with zsh ("biff: command not found"). Do you know if there is a more modern version? Thanks much.


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