How to get rid of mail message?

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 19:32:17 UTC 2022


On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 16:45, 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)

That is the wrong way to look at it.

The right way is: type `mail` and use the built-in mail program.

`man mail` will give you some help but it's very easy... hit Enter a
few times, read it, and then Ctrl+D to exit should be enough.

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