[SOLVED] Disabling message: You have new mail in /var/spool/mail

sebastian-65 · 2024-01-10 12:05:04

Since I have a quite a lot of mails in there (and for a good reason), I'm seeing this message in terminal quite often and it became distracting.

Is there any way to turn it off without turning off e-mail functionality altogether? Any tips or workarounds appreaciated.

Last edited by sebastian-65 (2024-01-14 18:35:29)

seth · 2024-01-10 14:32:52

sebastian-65 · 2024-01-12 13:24:34

@seth Thank you for a tip but neither of these settings worked for me:

session optional pam_mail.so noopen
session optional pam_mail.so noenv

Any other clues?

seth · 2024-01-12 13:39:22

"nopen", not "noopen"

sebastian-65 · 2024-01-14 10:37:38

Thank you for correction, however the message is still poping up even with nopen option.

seth · 2024-01-14 13:05:02

Does it acutally go away if you completely comment the module?
Do you have more pam_mail references in /etc/pam.d?

sebastian-65 · 2024-01-14 18:35:09

I did found out another record in the /etc/pam.d/system-login pam_mail record and modified it. And it seems to work so far!

Thank you for your help, seth. Much appreciated!

sebastian-65 · 2025-01-04 16:58:46

I remember I've tested this proposed solution badly and it didn't work afterall.

However, simple unset MAILCHECK into .bashrc seems to work.

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