I have mail, but where?

[APseudoUtopia]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Andrea Venturoli <ml at 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.