Re: [ILUG] Received mail for a user who shows no mail?

From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Tue 27 Apr 1999 - 20:00:18 IST

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Owen Kelly burst across the net:
>A user on my box has a prompt when he logs in "You have new mail", and
>on typing 'mail', gets "You have no mail". Im at a loss ... any ideas?

has this been happening since the first? is there a line in the users
.{profile|bash_profile|cshrc|tcshrc} that says:

echo "You have new mail"

alternatively, did ths just happen once? do they run fortune?

kevin

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