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Re: [opensuse] Checking System Mail
  • From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:22:43 -0800
  • Message-id: <200702161622.44017.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
Adam,

On Friday 16 February 2007 16:11, Adam Jimerson wrote:
> When I log into one of my terminal windows, F1-F6, I am informed that
> I have mail, and I'm guessing that it is the system mail,

You're being informed about the content of the mail-drop file whose name
is held in the $MAIL environment variable.

E.g.:

% echo $MAIL
/var/spool/mail/rschulz


> which I did check that option during the installation, so how do I go
> about checking it?

I use a KMail Receiving account of type "local" targeting the
aforementioned mail drop file to receive such locally delivered mail.
As far as I know, all the usual Unix / Linux command-line mail clients
will retrieve mail from this file by default.


Randall Schulz
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