How to get rid of mail message?

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 20:32:17 +0100, Liam Proven <lproven 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.
>

OK, that is the correct way to *read* the mail.

But I do not want to read it, in fact I don't want the message about having mail
to pop up in my terminal at all...


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden