On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: > 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.
I still don't understand. My OS X System has been continuously upgraded and/or transferred and has a lineage going back many years. My Terminal NEVER has any mail messages, and my var/mail/~user file is empty. I don't know why a program such as ClamAV would produce these mail messages in preference to actual log files unless it's as others have suggested, something related to "server" versions of software where a system administrator would regularly be using Terminal and the mail message would be a notification of a log entry? Whatever the reason, I'd remove whatever software you've installed that's giving you 1,245 messages from "cron jobs". My zero mail messages total is what I believe any "client" OS X system should have? No? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
