Re: I have mail, but where?
Steve Randall ha scritto: No mail for andrea Are there really two spaces in a row there? That's a vital clue. Sure. I noticed that too, but though it might be normal. For some reason your 'USER' environment variable is set to ' andrea' (with a leading space). Then .cshrc sets the 'mail' shell variable to '(/var/mail/ andrea)'. That's now a list with two elements. Since the first is a directory, csh counts the files in it, assuming they are messages. Since you don't have this problem with console logins, look for a configuration error in your GUI login manager. This is interesting... Unfortunately (or luckily), today that message does not appear anymore, so I can't check. If it does, I'll try your suggestion. bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: I have mail, but where?
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:05:04 +0100 Andrea Venturoli wrote: Steve Randall ha scritto: No mail for andrea Are there really two spaces in a row there? That's a vital clue. Sure. I noticed that too, but though it might be normal. For some reason your 'USER' environment variable is set to ' andrea' (with a leading space). Then .cshrc sets the 'mail' shell variable to '(/var/mail/ andrea)'. That's now a list with two elements. Since the first is a directory, csh counts the files in it, assuming they are messages. Since you don't have this problem with console logins, look for a configuration error in your GUI login manager. This is interesting... Unfortunately (or luckily), today that message does not appear anymore, so I can't check. Which message are you talking about? Is it a message You have new mail? The latter shows only once if there is a new mail. The system doesn't prompt you when there is unread mail. So you should actually read (and delete, save, etc.) your mail. -- WBR, bsam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
I have mail, but where?
Hello. This evening something new appeared on my box. When I open an xterm or a KDE shell, I get: You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/. This does not happen when I login on ttyvX. Nothing mail related is on this box (apart from KMail and Thunderbird) and ls -l /var/mail gives only zero size files, none of which is named after me. My home is NFS mounted on a mail server, but that uses Cyrus IMAP, so, again, nothing relevant is in /var/mail even there. Where do I look? This is no stopper, but I'm just curious... bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: I have mail, but where?
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Hello. This evening something new appeared on my box. When I open an xterm or a KDE shell, I get: You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/. This does not happen when I login on ttyvX. Nothing mail related is on this box (apart from KMail and Thunderbird) and ls -l /var/mail gives only zero size files, none of which is named after me. My home is NFS mounted on a mail server, but that uses Cyrus IMAP, so, again, nothing relevant is in /var/mail even there. Where do I look? This is no stopper, but I'm just curious... bye Thanks av. Type mail man 1 mail FreeBSD has a daily cron security and status script that run and send email to root (which then is usually redirected to another user's account). This is probably what is sending the emails - check it and see. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: I have mail, but where?
APseudoUtopia ha scritto: Type mail You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/. %mail No mail for andrea % I had already tried that, but AFAIK mail reads from /var/mail/andrea and that file is not there (in spite of the above message). FreeBSD has a daily cron security and status script that run and send email to root (which then is usually redirected to another user's account). This is probably what is sending the emails - check it and see. These are redirected to my mail server, which is another box. Besides, as you can see, I'm not experiencing this on my root account. bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: I have mail, but where?
On Wednesday 23 December 2009 00:50, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I had already tried that, but AFAIK mail reads from /var/mail/andrea and that file is not there (in spite of the above message). In my box, there is the ~/mbox file that has the messages in it. you can check out if it exists... -- Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: I have mail, but where?
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:50:54 +0100 Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: APseudoUtopia ha scritto: Type mail You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/. %mail No mail for andrea Are there really two spaces in a row there? That's a vital clue. For some reason your 'USER' environment variable is set to ' andrea' (with a leading space). Then .cshrc sets the 'mail' shell variable to '(/var/mail/ andrea)'. That's now a list with two elements. Since the first is a directory, csh counts the files in it, assuming they are messages. Since you don't have this problem with console logins, look for a configuration error in your GUI login manager. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: I have mail, but where?
Ed Jobs ha scritto: In my box, there is the ~/mbox file that has the messages in it. you can check out if it exists... Nope. bye av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
