what triggers "you have mail"

[Pollywog]

On Thursday 02 August 2007 15:43:36 David Banning wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:05:47AM +1000, Terry Sposato wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > It is most likely coming to your mailbox setup. You can create an alias
> > for it to be delivered appropriately to your maildir.
>
> Do what configuration file is that? The only files I use are ~/.muttrc
> and ~/.mailcap

You can create the alias in /etc/aliases
After you have done it, you run "newaliases" as root.

If you are running Postfix, you can modify the aliases file specified in your 
main.cf and then run "postalias" on the file.