Terminal says 'you have mail'

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Terminal says 'you have mail'

When I now open Terminal I get a message saying "You have mail". It didn't use to see this even when I had some mail unopened in Mail. Is there some mail that I need to access via Terminal and if so how do I do this?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on May 20, 2008 1:20 AM

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May 20, 2008 1:37 AM in response to RobbieSnr

Hi,

this is the system mail account and has nothing to do with Mail.app. You can type <mail> to look at your mails. There's probably just a system message in your inbox or something similar. To find out about the options this command has type <man mail>. This will show you its manual page. You can scroll up and down with the arrow keys and leave the manual with <q>.

Björn

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RobbieSnr Author

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May 20, 2008 7:18 AM in response to Björn Herrmann

That's grand, thanks. Yes it was a system message. I had been trying to send mail from one of my Perl CGI scripts using sendmail and it had failed, and this was advising me of this. I've not yet discovered what the problem was - I posted a message here but had no response so far.

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