I've already received and read mail (using pine) from a local user and from
cron. With no problems. 'mail' is not installed. I installed 'pine', so I
figured I wouldn't need to install 'mail'.
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> From: David Boyce[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 09 June 1999 14:52
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: You have new mail - NOT!
>
> Maurice Hendrix writes:
> >Whenever I log in as root I get the message "You have new mail." When
> I run
> >pine to read the mail, there is none.
> >
> >What's going on? Is there a file that contains a flag or counter that
> may
> >not be up-to-date?
>
> You *have* new mail. It's just not held where pine expects to find it.
> Chances are, the first few messages will be 'Welcome to Linux' messages.
>
> Read 'man mail'; then next time you log in as root, type 'mail'.
>
'mail' is not installed.
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Maurice Hendrix
