On Feb 2, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Steve R wrote:
>
>> When I open Terminal, it tells me I have new mail.
>
>
> This makes no sense.

Actually it makes perfect sense.

That local user on the local mail system has new unread mail in /var/ 
spool/mail. There are any number of utilities and stuff you can add  
into OS X that will generate mail messages locally. This has nothing  
whatsoever to do with mail in this Mail.app program, those are  
different accounts entirely.

Usually it means that you've installed or activated some unix-based  
server application. Installing things like Mysql or Postfres will do  
this, as will some Apache-related utilities.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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