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Terminal says I have mail...
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chabig
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Nov 15, 2005, 10:43 PM
 
I don't remember this before. But I opened Terminal tonight and it says:

Last login: Tue Nov 15 19:41:32 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
You have mail.

How does it know I have mail? Mail doesn't show any new mail. What's up?

Chris
     
Ganesha
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Nov 15, 2005, 11:02 PM
 
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chabig  (op)
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Nov 15, 2005, 11:28 PM
 
Thanks. Now I know where those messages came from and I was able to delete them.

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Nov 16, 2005, 04:26 AM
 
ClamXav is also notorious for sending mail after cron-scheduled scans.
     
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Nov 16, 2005, 10:00 AM
 
My mail was from MediaWiki. Every time a new user account is created, it sends a message.
     
   
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