MAIL environment variable set wrong

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:39 +0100, David Banks wrote:

[snip blurb on how MAIL gets set]

>    MAIL: If this parameter is set and mailpath is not set, the shell
>    looks for mail in the specified file.
> 
> There's no way to disable this check except by unsetting MAIL, so (since 
> /var/mail is forbidden to my user), every five minutes I get a message 
> "/var/mail/david: permission denied". There are quite a few workarounds 
> for this: unset MAIL in my zshrc, profile, /etc/profile; change the 
> permissions on /var/mail. But none of these do exactly what I want, 
> which is to avoid setting MAIL in the first place. Ideally the 'noenv' 
> option should do this perfectly, but it doesn't seem to work.
> 
> Any idea where I'm going wrong?

why not add 
unset MAIL
to your ~/.zshrc ?



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