How can I prevent the "You have mail." message from displaying every time I open the Terminal

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Every time I open the Terminal, I get the "You have mail." message, but I do not have any mail. When I run MAIL it reads, "No mail for myusername". I have tried several methods to prevent this from occurring every time I use the Terminal, including adding unset MAILCHECK to my bash profile.

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 24 '13 at 16:21

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From the comments on the question:

check /var/mail/<username>

There were two blank lines in /var/mail/<username> and removing them solved the problem.

Also, deleting the <username> directory in /var/mail will fix this.

edited Apr 24 '13 at 16:21

Lake

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How can I prevent the "You have mail." message from displaying every time I open the Terminal

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