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"Welcome to Darwin! You have new Mail" - how do I read it?
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JKT
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Feb 3, 2006, 12:59 PM
 
I've just noticed in Terminal that I'm getting the message "You have new Mail" - I asssume this is via sendmail, but as far as I am aware, I have never activated it and I have no idea why I am getting this message. Any ideas what this actually means, and how I can access this mail.

FWIW, looking in Console at my mail.log files, I am occasionally getting messages like this:

Feb 1 12:46:27 anonymous-comp postfix/postqueue[5773]: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
Feb 1 16:22:04 anonymous-comp postfix/master[6267]: daemon started -- version 2.1.5
Feb 1 16:22:05 anonymous-comp postfix/pickup[6268]: 475E24551F9: uid=501 from=<XXXXXXXXX>
Feb 1 16:22:05 anonymous-comp postfix/cleanup[6269]: 475E24551F9: message-id=<[email protected]>
Feb 1 16:22:05 anonymous-comp postfix/qmgr[6271]: 475E24551F9: from=<[email protected]>, size=2054, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 1 16:22:06 anonymous-comp postfix/smtp[6272]: 475E24551F9: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp-mx.mac.com[17.250.248.49], delay=3, status=bounced (host smtp-mx.mac.com[17.250.248.49] said: 553 5.1.8 <[email protected]>... Domain of sender address [email protected]l does not exist (in reply to MAIL FROM command))
Feb 1 16:22:07 anonymous-comp postfix/cleanup[6269]: 0B6074551FE: message-id=<[email protected]>
Feb 1 16:22:07 anonymous-comp postfix/qmgr[6271]: 0B6074551FE: from=<>, size=4096, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 1 16:22:07 anonymous-comp postfix/cleanup[6269]: 0EA07455201: message-id=<[email protected]>
Feb 1 16:22:07 anonymous-comp postfix/qmgr[6271]: 475E24551F9: removed
Feb 1 16:22:07 anonymous-comp postfix/qmgr[6271]: 0EA07455201: from=<>, size=3929, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 1 16:22:07 anonymous-comp postfix/local[6275]: 0B6074551FE: to=<[email protected]>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
Feb 1 16:22:07 anonymous-comp postfix/qmgr[6271]: 0B6074551FE: removed
Feb 1 16:22:08 anonymous-comp postfix/local[6276]: 0EA07455201: to=<[email protected]>, relay=local, delay=1, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
Feb 1 16:22:08 anonymous-comp postfix/qmgr[6271]: 0EA07455201: removed
Feb 1 16:23:03 anonymous-comp postfix/master[6267]: master exit time has arrived
Feb 1 16:23:37 anonymous-comp postfix/sendmail[6292]: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]
Feb 1 16:23:44 anonymous-comp postfix/postqueue[6293]: fatal: Queue report unavailable - mail system is down


I have no experience with sendmail, so if anyone could help out, it would be greatly appreciated. TIA.

P.S. XXXXXXXXX above should be my account short username, but I have edited it out.
     
SoBayJake
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Feb 3, 2006, 01:06 PM
 
Have you tried just typing "mail"?
I can't remember if that works on OS X (I'm at work now), but on our Linux boxes, that will read it.

-J
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RevEvs
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Feb 3, 2006, 01:25 PM
 
yup - just type mail.
I free'd my mind... now it won't come back.
     
JKT  (op)
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Feb 3, 2006, 04:17 PM
 
OK, thanks (doh ).
     
   
 
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