Re: How to get rid of "The mail in ____ has been read." ?

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Sweth Chandramouli <sweth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 10:14:28PM -0500, Russell Hoover wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > My question is, how can I get rid of "The mail in ___ has been read"
> > > without getting rid of "You have new mail" ?
> 
> > from scanning the manpages, it looks like setopt nomailwarning might
> > be what you are looking for
> 
> Yes, I think that's right.  I don't think this affects the ordinary
> "You have new mail" message at all.  I think the mail_warning option
> is a special option for the paranoid; you get the ordinary message
> just by setting mailpath, or MAIL.

I just confirmed this with the sources.  Something else I never knew.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>       Tel: +39 050 844536
WWW:  http://www.ifh.de/~pws/
Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy