How to get rid of mail message?

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 16:31, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 15:45, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have started to see a pop-up message in my terminal with the following text:
> >
> > You have new mail in /var/mail/<username>
> >
> > If I look at this (it is actually not an  email, it is just a text file) it
> > seems to contain output from an application which is scheduled to run hourly by
> > at.
>
> It sounds like they may be cron emailing you (which is the default).
> This is what I did to stop that (though I was just following something
> I found somewhere so it may not be the best way, or may be out of
> date.
> Edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and add ,cron.none to these two lines so you have
>
> auth,authpriv.*,cron.none                      /var/log/auth.log
> *.*;auth,authpriv.none,cron.none               -/var/log/syslog

Ah, no, that was to stop cron logging, obviously.  Will have another
look at my notes.

Colin