I have mail, but where?

[Boris Samorodov]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:05:04 +0100 Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> 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.

Which message are you talking about? Is it a message "You have new
mail"? The latter shows only once if there is a new mail. The system
doesn't prompt you when there is unread mail. So you should actually
read (and delete, save, etc.) your mail.

-- 
WBR, bsam