RE: You have new mail - NOT!

[Anonymous]

With your help I've found out that the "problem" was caused by 'pine'.

'pine' seems to keep it's (or at least some) configuration settings in
/var/spool/mail/<user>. I think this is weird. Why doesn't it use ~/.pinerc?

Anyway, as suggested here I switched to 'elm' and haven't had any problems
since :-)

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Maurice Hendrix