At 7:30 PM -0500 2/2/09, Steve R wrote: >At 3:44 PM -0600 2/2/09, Dennis Myhand posted: >> Steve R wrote: > >> When I open Terminal, it tells me I have new mail.
> To read the mail, open a terminal, if you > > haven't already done so, and type mail, and hit enter. > > >Okay... thanks. Mail seems to be telling me that ClamXav has been >sending me nightly reports, dated to coincide (around the date) I >changed my preferences to auto scan. Mystery solved. And very simple >'mail' command hopefully remembered. > Mystery not completely solved.... Other than opening the file at /var/mail/myusername with a text editor, is there any way I can download that mail to an actual mail client (preferably one on a *different* machine, as I have several machines which do this) and delete it from the file? One of my machines currently has 1245 messages sitting in there from various cron jobs. Terminal doesn't really let me read the entire message, just the characters that fit on one line, the width of the window. If there's an actual problem with one of the processes, I'd like to know about it in my regular mail without having to go to terminal or BBEdit on the machine in question. It's been buggin' me for a while, I just never thought to ask here. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/> Green Real Estate: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/> Straw Bale Registry: <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/> Books/videos/software: <http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
