I have mail, but where?

[Andrea Venturoli]

Steve Randall ha scritto:
>> No mail for  andrea
> 
> Are there really two spaces in a row there? That's a vital clue.

Sure. I noticed that too, but though it might be normal.



> For
> some reason your 'USER' environment variable is set to ' andrea' (with a
> leading space). Then .cshrc sets the 'mail' shell variable to
> '(/var/mail/ andrea)'. That's now a list with two elements. Since the
> first is a directory, csh counts the files in it, assuming they are
> messages.
> 
> Since you don't have this problem with console logins, look for a
> configuration error in your GUI login manager.

This is interesting...
Unfortunately (or luckily), today that message does not appear anymore, 
so I can't check.
If it does, I'll try your suggestion.



  bye & Thanks
	av.