Randolph Fritz said these things on 20000707.1400:
| On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 01:46:58PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
| > Anyone know how to stop Linux from issuing the little messages like 'You
| > have new mail in /var/spool/mail' at the command prompt? Is it
| > configurable? On my system, I'm using gkrellm, so I know when mail
| > comes in. The command prompt message is only a slight annoyance, but if
| > I can turn it off, I'd like to.
|
| Unset the shell variable "MAILCHECK".
Cool. Thanks. I added 'unset MAILCHECK' to my .bashrc and it did the
trick. Nice and easy.
