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Re: How do I disable MAILCHECK?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: How do I disable MAILCHECK?
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:27:28 -0500

> I would like to disable the MAILCHECK feature, but no matter
> whether I set MAILCHECK to 0 or unset it, I always get these `New
> mail for cartan@darkstar has arrived:' lines in all of my open
> shells.  I am using
> 
> GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-slackware-linux-gnu)
> 
> Any ideas?

Since that's not the message bash prints when you have new mail, I suspect
you're running some other mail checking program that doesn't know anything
about $MAILCHECK.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/



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