slack mail messages

archish · 12-12-2003, 08:26 PM

I slackware whenever I login I get the mail which are very interesting. I wanted to know where are these messages stored?
thanks

Tarts · 12-13-2003, 02:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by archish
I slackware whenever I login I get the mail which are very interesting. I wanted to know where are these messages stored?
thanks

I think the messages for root are stored in '/var/spool/mail/root', for a user its '/home/<user>/mail'.

Tarts

ugob · 12-13-2003, 08:08 AM

type in

echo $MAIL when you're logged in and it will tell you

to read it, you can use the command

mail

or

pine

mutt

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