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Terminal Opens With "You have mail". What's that from?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1900754" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>You must have some application that is sending you email locally. At the terminal prompt, enter <strong>mail</strong> and you will be in the mail app and will see a list of emails in the format of :</p><p></p><p>N 1 <local email address> <Date> <Size> <Subject></p><p></p><p>You can enter the number <strong>1</strong> at the <strong>?</strong> to see the content of the email. Enter <strong>?</strong> at the <strong>?</strong> to get help, and <strong>d</strong> to delete the message and so on.</p><p></p><p>If you type <strong>mail</strong> and get back "No mail for <username>" then you won't see the "You have mail" message anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1900754, member: 110816"] You must have some application that is sending you email locally. At the terminal prompt, enter [B]mail[/B] and you will be in the mail app and will see a list of emails in the format of : N 1 <local email address> <Date> <Size> <Subject> You can enter the number [B]1[/B] at the [B]?[/B] to see the content of the email. Enter [B]?[/B] at the [B]?[/B] to get help, and [B]d[/B] to delete the message and so on. If you type [B]mail[/B] and get back "No mail for <username>" then you won't see the "You have mail" message anymore. [/QUOTE]
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