Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:28:19 -0500 From: APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I have mail, but where? Message-ID: <27ade5280912221428u7f71f71es29aa31700a31b4a5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B314061.4090001@netfence.it> References: <4B314061.4090001@netfence.it>
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote: > Hello. > > This evening something new appeared on my box. > When I open an xterm or a KDE shell, I get: > "You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/." > > This does not happen when I login on ttyvX. > > Nothing mail related is on this box (apart from KMail and Thunderbird) an= d > "ls -l /var/mail" gives only zero size files, none of which is named afte= r > me. > > My home is NFS mounted on a mail server, but that uses Cyrus IMAP, so, > again, nothing relevant is in /var/mail even there. > > Where do I look? > > This is no stopper, but I'm just curious... > > =C2=A0bye & Thanks > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0av. Type "mail" man 1 mail FreeBSD has a daily cron security and status script that run and send email to root (which then is usually redirected to another user's account). This is probably what is sending the emails - check it and see.
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